Almost fifteen years ago, a little blue bird landed on our shoulder. A bird with a very nice name, Twitter. Cute as everything with its delicate beak, its wing that catches the wind, its angelic, innocent profile. And the blue of its plumage, such a soft blue. A bird with adorable squawks, tweet here, tweet there. What a lovely sound. And it is true that thanks to his song of 140, then 280 characters, we built bridges, links. We went over bars, over barriers, over borders. Thanks to him, we realized that we were not alone, we federated, we encouraged each other. Helpful, the little bird.
However, the bird really pleased women and politicians, newspapers, radios, televisions, almost all the media in the world, who made it their only horizon. They liked his singing. So much so that, very quickly, the bird succeeded in giving the illusion to those who frequented it that its world was THE world. From now on, all those who
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Tania de Montaigne
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