@MA_Mel ahaahh nice my twitter makes you smile. If only it made men undress too!!10:17 PM Aug 4th via web from Garment District, New York in reply to MA_Mel
Mentioning your whereabouts, describing your breakfast, sharing links, and replying to other users, then perhaps sharing some more links, these are all essentials within this raid of commentaries shared…
In doubting the power of Facebook and twitter as institutions that proliferate political and social activism, the The New Yorker columnist, Malcolm Gladwell says:
“Social networks are effective at increasing participation— by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.”
Gladwell’s article openly refutes the notion that micro-blogging and social networking platforms such as twitter and Facebook can…
One of the latest trends on the World Wide Web is micro-blogging. A micro-blog is a platform for short text updates, usually not more than a sentence or two in length. The most famous micro-blog service is Twitter where the user can update a text containing no more than 140 characters. And there is no doubt that…
It is no news to us that text messaging is morphing our modern culture. In 2008, the British scholar David Crystal has observed how text messages in mobile phones and IMs can influence our live technologically, sociologically, psychologically, commercially, and linguistically. In his book Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, Crystal points out that texting has become pervasive in…
On a first encounter with twitter, one may understandably think: ‘what are these twittering twats tweeting about!’ The twats bother each other constantly with utterances too short to be meaningful. A common reply is: Just try it for yourself!
Twitter, a micro blogging platform, is not about individuals expressing their personalities or giving ground breaking analyses. Twitter is about sharing…
‘As Oliver Selfridge puts it, an intimate, interactive conversation is, in some sense, the lack of it’. (Nicholas Negroponte) [1]
See also complete analysis HERE
Launched in October 2006 and taking off worldwide in March 2007 by…
To understand the logic of Twittering or microblogging as a blogging practise it might help looking at the concept of ‘Mcdonaldization’.
Time to get social online, but why?
Why do we socialize online? Because “human beings are social animals,” Aristotle would say so.