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In the case of Iran’s election, Twitter served as the lifeline to news and info for a monumental and historical event. #Twitter is about approach, transparency, immediacy. #Social media are about: real people, emotion, and empathy. #from “The Cult of the Amateur”: “There’s a tipping point right now with new, traditional, and social media. It’s conversation versus fact checking. No one has answers to where this convergence is leading.” Fact checking is what separates amateurs from experts. #what Twitter represents has more to do with the culture it’s defining. # The new media economy will embrace a shift in content creation and revenue generation from a top-down model to a bottom-up groundswell. it starts to redefine the parameters and platforms for creating and distributing info and monetizing that content. #there's the lack of transparency across Twitter and media #Twitter and social media helps create a more media-literate society #Paul Saffo said, “News doesn’t break, it tweets.”

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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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