But if you're still unsure what Twitter is or why it matters, this post by UNLV j-prof Charlotte-Anne Lucas is a wonderful primer. Much worth reading, including this taste from her intro:
What is Twitter?
It is like a microblog, a place to say your piece, or Tweet, in 140 characters or less.
And it is a place to listen.
Unlike my soapbox of a blog, my Twitter home page is actually a waterfall of other people’s words, blended in a real time river from streams around the world. They are people I have stumbled upon and collected simply by clicking on the button to “follow” them.
With twitter we experience the transience of the web within a human timeframe. Twitter simultaneously deconstructs and constructs new communication. Interested in your thoughts on the news implications, which seem tremendous to me. Audiences are splintered, attention is fractured, info consuming patterns are rapidly changing.
ReplyDeleteAudiences are splintered, attention is fractured...
ReplyDeleteAnd limited to what you call your "followers". I noted in a Twitter demo just recently that I personally have more followers than most newspaper Twitter accounts even though newspapers are far more able to produce useful and interesting "tweets" than I am.
I twitter about what's going on in MY world... MY interests and MY thoughts. Media outlets could twitter on a community's interests and thoughts.