Posted by Marcus Antonius - August 12, 2009. on twitter A free online guide about Twitter was launched on Monday (10) in their own microblogging service. With the title "All you need to know about Twitter," the digital book aims to answer the main questions of internet users who want to know or learn more about the "twittosfera."
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The idea of the guide arose from the difficulty that many people have to understand the microblogging service, as well as users to define it. "It's hard to explain what Twitter is for someone with the basics of using the web. You can, by approximation, say it is a mixture of blog and MSN, "said the author Juliano Spyer (jasper @).
Or you can be specific and say that is a microblogging tool based on an asymmetric structure contact, the sharing of links and the possibility of real-time search, but this hardly convince your partner to use the service, "added the writer, part of the team's Talk Interactive Agency, which organized the project.
Initially, the book includes 46 chapters divided into three categories: All you need to know, business, journalism and politics, and Advanced Use of Twitter. Available on the Internet under the Creative Commons, the guide can gain new collaborative approaches to updating the content by the readers themselves.
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Posted by Marcus Antonius - March 23, 2009. in social networks We live in the era of the exhibition and sharing. Public and private become blurred. The idea of privacy will change or disappear.
The above is exactly 140 characters. It is a short message that tries to encapsulate a complex idea. It is not easy this type of synthesis, but tens of millions of people do it daily. Worldwide are raised 2.4 trillion text messages per month, and touches them fit 140 or so. It is also common e-mail, leave messages on Orkut, talk to people on MSN, chatting on the phone, receive calls anywhere, anytime. We are connected.
Superpipelined, in fact, in many ways. There are 1.57 billion people who use the Internet and 3.3 billion mobile phones - and the two networks are merging. There is a new syntax in construction, of the messages. Practices have migrated to the Internet world and the things of the world cell phone broke into the computer network. The spread of digital information over the web started in 1995 is deepening and brings with it radical changes in customs. People can not stop talking and do not want to stop receiving. They want to show off and want to see. All.
The great thing about Twitter is the pace. For some reason
unexplained, people do not stop to exchange messages
The latest example of the total demand for a new connection and social syntax is Twitter, the new messaging service via the Internet. Created in 2006, took off last year and already has 6 million users worldwide. Twitter can be understood as a mixture of blog and cell phone. The messages are 140 touches, like the torpedoes cellphones, but circulating the Internet as the texts of blogs. Instead of going for just one person, as on the phone or on MSN, the message goes to all the Twitter "followers" - people who came with the issuer. May be 30, 300 or 409 thousand followers, as has Barack Obama. This structure messaging is new, but it is not the principal.
The great thing about Twitter is the pace. For some inexplicable reason, people do not stop to exchange messages. The Twitter site has a basic question - "What are you doing?" - And everybody says, several times a day, say that they are having lunch, said the bus broke down, warn seeing a celebrity. How can you post the phone, the tweeters do not rest on account of the trivial. It is a continuous stream of minutiae that Americans call "intimate environment." Communication is fast and continuous, and organized a small digital scream. From the outside it seems hysterical, but it sounds natural for those involved. And it is a success.
Twitter is growing explosively. According to the U.S. consultancy Compete, specializing in statistics for the Internet, the number of users jumped from 600,000 to 6 million in one year. It is the fastest growing social network in the United States.
source: G1
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