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It’s Friday; Who Do You Follow on Twitter?

It’s Friday; Who Do You Follow on Twitter?

In an attempt to document the migration back and forth between offline and online communications, it’s worth noting that a handful of Christian organizations are taking advantage of micro-blogging (a relatively new form of life streaming) and setting up Twitter accounts for their “followers”.  Of course, they’re not the only ones.  Twitter is also being [...]

Earthquake Creates Twitter Spurt, So What?

Earthquake Creates Twitter Spurt, So What?

The recent Southern California minor earthquake caused a flurry of tweets in the twitterverse.  This is what it looks like on a Twitter-graph.

Twitter, the micro-blogging or social messaging service (SMS) has been embraced by communication's early adopters but hasn't spread in terms of mainstream acceptability yet.  In fact, according to Wikipedia, Twitter has only 2,200,000 [...]

Twitter, Digital Footprints, Digital Shadows, Tagging and the Age of Transparency

Twitter, Digital Footprints, Digital Shadows, Tagging and the Age of Transparency

Last December, The Pew Internet & American Life Project put out the results of a provocative survey entitled Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency. 
Compiled by Mary Madden, Susannah Fox, Aaron Smith, et. al., you can view a PDF of the Digital Footprint report here.  The survey spotlighted [...]