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What is twitter? How is it used?
"Traditional news operated on a 24-hour cycle. Blogs shortened this to minutes and hours. Twitter shortens it further to seconds.
Boing Boing October 10 2008
Twitter the new fad soon to die out (Business Week)?No, according to the LA Times. Twitter is now the home of a vibrant community filtering the info-glut in an effective and efficient way. In doing so it's creating explicit communities from implicit groups.
For him, Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.
“Mindcasting came about when I was trying to achieve a very high signal-to noise-ratio,” he explained. This meant using his Twitter account to send out tweets pointing to the best media news and analysis he could find, 15 or 20 times a day. “I could work on the concept of a Twitter feed as an editorial product of my own.”
Whatever a fad is ... certainly too early to see what people will do with this particular technology. It hasn't started to evolve. Mobile phones did. What will we be saying about this article in 6 months time?
TweetMinster is a service that makes it easier to connect the public with politics using Twitter. TweetMinster allows to track UK politics in real time, and to find and follow Members of Parliament (or invite them to use Twitter if they're not already doi
TweetMinster is a public service in the UK that makes it easier to connect the public with politics using Twitter. TweetMinster allows to track UK politics in real time, and to find and follow Members of Parliament (or invite them to use Twitter if they'r
It was 3.32AM (01.32 GMT, EDT Sunday) when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Abruzzo, a quake-prone region in the center of Italy, killing 150 people and causing severe damages to several cities. The epicenter was about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Rome.
Surprisingly, it took one hour and a half for the news to be reported by national television and more than three hours before the main newspapers did the same in their online edition.
People awakened by the quake used Twitter to spread the news even before news agencies. For a couple of hours Twitter was the only source available to Italian people to share news and information and, most of all, try to contact friends and relatives living in Abruzzo.
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Organisers used the social networking site Twitter to rally opposition to a Communist victory in legislative elections
At least 10,000 protesters gathered and police fired water cannon but were unable to stop the crowd from breaking into the buildings.
"A New York-based anarchist has been arrested by the FBI and charged with hindering prosecution after he allegedly used the social networking site Twitter to help protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh evade the police.\n\nElliot Madison, 41, from Queens, had his home raided and was put on $30,000 (£19,000) bail after he and Michael Wallschlaeger, 46, were tracked to the Carefree Inn motel in Pittsburgh during the summit on 24 and 25 September."
The recent so-called "Twitter Revolutions" in Moldova and Iran have created a renewed interest in the role of new communication technologies in civil resistance and social protest activities. It is a new example in a growing list of events where such technologies played an important role in facilitating protests. Twitter and other microblogging platforms represent a new phenomenon because they easily work across different types of communication technologies such as instant messaging, blogging, and text messaging. This convergence also draws attention to the wide-spread use of mobile phones in civil resistance, a factor often overlooked by Internet enthusiasts. This R@D product summarizes some key insights from interviews with civil activists in both Serbia and Belarus that were part of a master thesis project on mobile phone usage in protest movements, and it links them to insights gained from the recent "Twitter Revolutions".
Boyd discusses two main ways in which twitter is being used: 1. as a communication tool where public replies, re-twits and private replies are focussed on a smaller group 2. a community - "a sprawling multidimensional social system predicated on the open asymmetrical follower model". The developers of twitter use the first - as I do - but that according to Boyd could compromise the growth of a culture through the second use.
According to the latest web analysis from WebTrends, just two per cent (one in fifty) businesses in the UK are using Twitter for marketing, while six per cent are blogging or podcasting.
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