The Rise and Fall of Blogging, Twitter and Facebook (2007)
...In the past year it’s started to morph into something else. There’s been a rise in something called microblogging (sometimes called tumblelogs), where services allow you and me to post and share little snippets of information about ourselves, whether it’s what we’re doing, thinking, reading or listening to, where we are or who we’re talking to. The best known of these is Twitter, but there are others: Jaiku, Pownce, for example.
These microblogs may not look much like blogs – they’re just streams of 150-character consciousness, from the mundane to the slightly less mundane, to which other users subscribe — but for a lot of people they perform the same function: link them into a broader social network where they can both broadcast their doings and find out what others are doing too. As we in Asia found with SMS, North America has found that an enforced limit on the number of letters you can use in a message is a blessing, not a curse.
Twitter et al have not been for everybody. But as with most technology, its usage has evolved into a new medium....
http://www.loosewireblog.com/2007/07/the-rise-and-fa.html
http://www.loosewireblog.com/2007/07/the-rise-and-fa.html
...In the past year it’s started to morph into something else. There’s been a rise in something called microblogging (sometimes called tumblelogs), where services allow you and me to post and share little snippets of information about ourselves, whether it’s what we’re doing, thinking, reading or listening to, where we are or who we’re talking to. The best known of these is Twitter, but there are others: Jaiku, Pownce, for example.
These microblogs may not look much like blogs – they’re just streams of 150-character consciousness, from the mundane to the slightly less mundane, to which other users subscribe — but for a lot of people they perform the same function: link them into a broader social network where they can both broadcast their doings and find out what others are doing too. As we in Asia found with SMS, North America has found that an enforced limit on the number of letters you can use in a message is a blessing, not a curse.
Twitter et al have not been for everybody. But as with most technology, its usage has evolved into a new medium....
http://www.loosewireblog.com/2007/07/the-rise-and-fa.html
http://www.loosewireblog.com/2007/07/the-rise-and-fa.html
I'm thinking Twitter is probably most useful for celebrities. Instagram doesn't impose text limits (that I know of), yet the visual dominance seems to make excessive text a faux pas.
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