There’s much rhetoric about Twitter being a gigantic conversation, a party where everyone’s interacting and sharing. But perhaps it’s too early to think about Twitter this way. Brian Solis thinks so. Solis believes that Twitter is still primarily a broadcast platform. It’s that way because most users are yet to understand how it can be [...]
Updated – see below —————————————————— I’ve been asked to do a blurb for a course I’m running. Here’s what I’ve come up with with the help of my Twitter friends @tessag, @rhysatwork, @ausi1, @danhaeveer and @rebeccamezzino. Any chance of a bit of collaborative help? Peter Fletcher idle chatterer, tireless discusser and absolute twit. He has [...]
Why do people use Twitter? Couple of videos in which Twitter users are asked why they use Twitter. Thanks to Hans for bringing this one to my attention.
I’m in the process of considering what I’ll write my next essay on, what will be the incisive thesis question. I’ve done some work on Twitter and why this (and by extension other micr-blogging platforms) are so important, especially to students in Australia, where the penetration of Twitter appears to be much less than in [...]