Twitter is bad for you

Yes, well, that’s what one professor / scientist named Tracy Alloway tried to proof (as it is published around the net, also in today’s Sp!ts (page 4, column 1)

“keeping up with friends on Facebook stretches the working memory in a way that Twitter and YouTube cannot do. “On Twitter you receive an endless stream of information, but it’s also very succinct, you don’t have to process that information. There is no communication / dialog happening” … “playing video games, doing Sudoku puzzles and, yes, Facebooking boosts your working memory.”

Really, I can’t find the truth in that statement. I don’t see why there’s no dialog happening. If you reply to one’s tweet, you do communicating, right? Or replying to someone’s statement doesn’t count as ‘communication’ anymore? Or she didn’t realize that there are communication in the comments-part of each youtube video?

To top it off: why the hell then she also have a twitter account (@tracyalloway)? Is she feeling any deterioration in her oh-so-smart-doctorate-brain after some time tweeting all her ‘research’?