Patrick Brethour of The Globe and Mail interviewed Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell about social media and why he is notably absent from social media, with only biannual blogposts, a placeholder for a Facebook page an no presence on Twitter.

A couple relevant excerpts:

For a lot of people in the media, tweeting is almost obligatory. Why not for you?

There’s only so much you can do in a day. And I don’t feel I lack for platforms for expressing myself. I have books, I write for the New Yorker. If I gave people any more, they’d get sick of me. . . .
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