Twitter deteriorates memory

Working memory – the ability to recall things over a short period of time – could be the key to success, according to Tracy Alloway, a psychologist at Stirling University.

She says Facebook may actually improve working memory while Twitter may work against it and contributes to some people’s lack of success.

I guess Twitter is not financing her research, but it can explain why Mona Sahlin, the Social democratic leader in Sweden, has been so unsuccesful since she stopped talking to real people on the streets of Stockholm, and started instead twittering to the citizens of cyber space.

Read the news article in The Independent here.