twitch era

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unpakwon

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Is there any special meaning in "twitch" in the following? Why is the word used? Is it just saying something that is confusing and distressing?

These are the chaotic, early days of the "twitch" era, in which we often feel as though we are drowning in a deluge of data, and can't stop picking up our smartphones ...

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probus

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I think the twitch is the automatic and urgent response that our smartphones so often triggered when we first got them. Sometime later most of us conceived the idea that we, rather than our phones, should be in charge, and suppressed our twitches.
 
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