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Organisation

Twitter

Twitter contributed to Social Networking and Microblogging Platforms. Twitter, launched the same year, popularised short public updates, asymmetric following and @-mediated conversation; early research described it as a hybrid of broadcasting and social networking.

Type
company or platform
Known for
Social Networking and Microblogging Platforms
Historical role

What the organisation contributed

Twitter, launched the same year, popularised short public updates, asymmetric following and @-mediated conversation; early research described it as a hybrid of broadcasting and social networking.

Why it mattered

Turns persistent profiles and social relationships into scalable audience discovery and distribution infrastructure.

Connected topics

Where this fits in ITEM

Social Networking and Microblogging Platforms
Evidence

Sources and further reading

  1. Daniel M. Romero and Fang Wu, Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope, 2008

    Bernardo A. Huberman · 2008

    Open source ↗

  2. Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities, WebKDD/SNA-KDD 2007

    Akshay Java · 2007

    Open source ↗