What are you doing?: How Twitter became a new communication medium

What started out as a simple status update has evolved into much more. Much, much more.

This rapid-fire talk will explore some of the ways in which Twitter, and to a lesser degree its copycats, have become a new communication medium.

Presented at the first IgniteOrlando event.

Transcript

1. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? how twitter became a new communication medium
2. what is it?
3. twitter’s impact
4. asynchronous attention
5. unforced reciprocity
6. ambient awareness
7. instant crowd sourcing
8. geo-coded notifications
9. social news filter
10. citizen journalism
11. micro-blogging
12. for the lolz
13. real people
14. pseudo people
15. from the mundane
16. to the magnificent
17. twitter as a platform
18. pipe your messages
19. its not over yet
20. thank you! txt “follow xentek” to 40404