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The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible
first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send
140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world
need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago
scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would
allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my
choice of breakfast cereal."
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Ashley GraffThis is an article that explains just how powerful Twitter is becoming. It explains what Twitter was created for and how people are using Twitter to their advantage. It explains how Twitter gives us the ability to know vital (or not so vital) information in real-time. Twitter is the epitome of just how far technology is advancing. This article really looks into the idea of how businesses can use Twitter to thrive. Twitter may help businesses advertise their company, or keep clients up to date with necessary information. Living in our fast-paced world makes us as individuals want to receive vital information as quickly as possible. Twitter allows us to read messages fast because they can only be 140characters or less. The idea of a short message is appealing to many. This article did a great job at explaining the positives of Twitter and how Twitter is a great social-networking site. This site will be helpful to my research because it gives me information containing why people use Twitter and how it can benefit people. This is going to be important to address when talking about Twitter.
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Kelly VondracekI think the first part of this articles explains my feelings for twitter very well. It describes how silly twitter seems to be for a large majority of people. It then leaks into how it can be used to create deep conversations. They like to mention a couple of times how insignificant the choice of someone's breakfast cereal can actually be more interesting than you'd like to believe.
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Alan BrownI was told about this article by a friend on campus here at Purdue. It is a very interesting article about Twitter and how it changes our lives, whether we realize it or not. In a way, it has changed our lives in english class this semester. I think it is a good kind of change though because we use it in an educational way. We use it to reflect on our readings we were assigned. I decided to tag this site because it grabbed my attention, and we use it many times throughout the week.
Steven Johnson makes a good point when he says, "We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask." This is how Twitter is taking over our lives, in a way. This article is very true. The author is right on the money with this article.
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"ambient awareness"
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And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth.
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"ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines.
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Wayne BarryThe one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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Alice BarrThe one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com.
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threat that blogging posed to our attention span
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But the key development with Twitter is how we've jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.
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Michelle DeSilvaOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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katarina peovicAnnotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fbusiness%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1902604%2C00.html
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it makes a terrible first impression
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And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds. The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
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We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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Jimmy CenterEvan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter
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Dorota .Clive Thompson:"ambient awareness"- by following quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. #Twitter - a pointing device instead of a communications channel: sharing links to longer articles, discussions, posts, videos — anything that lives behind a URL. Sites that once saw their traffic dominated by Google search queries are seeing a growing no. of new visitors coming from "passed links" at social networks like Twitter and FB. #Put those 3 elements together — social networks, live searching and link-sharing — may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching. #the key elements of the Twitter— the follower structure, link-sharing, real-time searching #Channels of info: news & opinion, searching, advertising # MIT prof. Eric von Hippel: end-user innovation-consumers actively modify a product to adapt it to their needs.Twitter has been a hothouse of it
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Leanna ArchambaultOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying,
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Jennifer Dorman"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."
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Mary Ann AppleTime magazine article
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It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
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The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines.
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twitter fanInjecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles.
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VincentOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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Janet BianchiniGood article for teachers re Twitter
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What was next? Software that let you send a single punctuation mark to describe your mood?
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y following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routine
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Lauren McMullenhow In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
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In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
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Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchang
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Kyle MurleyOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness":
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The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn't be taken lightly
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Alesia McManusOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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Arne van ElkGoed artikel over het belang van Twitter. Vergelijkingen met andere diensten, toekomstige ontwikkelingen, meningen van de ontwikkelaars en gebruikers.
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And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds. The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
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The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn't be taken lightly. But I think there is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we've jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.
In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
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Tac AndersonOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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Vladimir HroudaOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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nikolas smyrlakisOnce just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation
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