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On the importance of Twitter and microblogs in general
I've read some real good passages about twitter at http://www.mappingtheweb.com/2008/04/09/twitters-position-on-the-web/
"proven to be a great tool for information dissemination and aggregation"
"There are many issues, stories, etc. that I’m interested in blogging about but doing it on Mark Evans Tech doesn’t seem like the right fit. Enter: Twitter"
"Most of the people I “follow” are industry leaders in our field. This is how I’ve gotten most of my news recently. Announcements of new apps launching or people sharing a link to something industry related - has been very cool."
And added my own comment:
when I first visited Twitter, I immediately said it would replace mail, IM and bookmarking sites (all to some extent anyway), though I came from a very critical article about its uselessness
microblogs are the first global instant mass media, within five minutes any news can be spread around the globe
there are English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French, Korean, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, Polish microblogs...
all seem to accept English language postings with an url to an English blogarticle (sometimes urls aren't clickable though...)
any way, any major news is spreadable within minutes of happening
Pieter Jansegers
http://microblogs.ning.com
an explanation of the twitter success story
Why twitter is such a great success...
a statement
microblogs are changing the world
"proven to be a great tool for information dissemination and aggregation"
"There are many issues, stories, etc. that I’m interested in blogging about but doing it on Mark Evans Tech doesn’t seem like the right fit. Enter: Twitter"
"Most of the people I “follow” are industry leaders in our field. This is how I’ve gotten most of my news recently. Announcements of new apps launching or people sharing a link to something industry related - has been very cool."
And added my own comment:
when I first visited Twitter, I immediately said it would replace mail, IM and bookmarking sites (all to some extent anyway), though I came from a very critical article about its uselessness
microblogs are the first global instant mass media, within five minutes any news can be spread around the globe
there are English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French, Korean, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, Polish microblogs...
all seem to accept English language postings with an url to an English blogarticle (sometimes urls aren't clickable though...)
any way, any major news is spreadable within minutes of happening
Pieter Jansegers
http://microblogs.ning.com
an explanation of the twitter success story
Why twitter is such a great success...
a statement
microblogs are changing the world
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