Love it or hate it, Twitter is getting the buzz, and as usual, there are any number of ways to use the service as a marketing tool. MediaShift . Point of Presence::Your Guide to Micro-Blogging and Twitter | PBS: “Media companies such as the BBC, The New York Times and Al Jazeera are trying out [...]
My final essays are due soon and I’m writing one of them on how micro-blogging is leading to increased levels of self disclosure and what how this may affect individual privacy. My initial thoughts are that yes, people are disclosing more about themselves and they do this to achieve various personal and economic gains. But [...]
Introduction What is Twitter? It’s a world-wide phenomenon that lets people post short messages of a maximum of 140 characters in response to a simple question – “what are you doing?”. Users can send these messages via IM, mobile phone, from the Twitter web site, or via a number of applications that feed and publish [...]