Actually, the problem word in this term is “Virtuality”.

By definition: Virtual: Existing or resulting in essence or effect though NOT in actual fact, form, or name.

What’s being exchanged in real time through twitter and other social networking channels is anything but “virtual”. It’s real. It IS in actual fact.

I don’t think it’s right to indiscriminately equate on-line with virtual and off-line with real.

Twitter is a form of communication, enhancing real, yet non-physical interactions between humans, like any other form of communication (mail, telephone, SMS, email, Facebook and its ilk).

I can’t say that there is anything “virtual” about the scenarios described above, so therefore by error of definition, Twitter is NOT a form of augmented virtuality.

Augmented reality? It’s not making reality any more “real”.

Twitter is a form of communication.