Twifficiency offers a hard lesson on the speed of news

Twitter regulars were hard pressed to avoid  Twifficiency yesterday, a Twitter grading system developed by a 17-year old from Scotland. Within hours of going live, it was the second-most-popular term trending on Twitter and sparked social media-style outrage thanks to its spam-like auto-tweet feature. Lost? Don’t be, catch up on all the action with Business Zone ’s Dan Martin here as he looks at how quickly this fun application became public enemy number one — in a matter…