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

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.

Eric Marden

March 05, 2009
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  1. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
    how twitter became a new communication medium

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  2. what is it?

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  3. twitter’s impact

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  4. asynchronous attention

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  5. unforced reciprocity

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  6. ambient awareness

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  7. instant crowd sourcing

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  8. geo-coded notifications

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  9. social news filter

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  10. citizen journalism

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  11. micro-blogging

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  12. for the lolz

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  13. real people

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  14. pseudo people

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  15. from the mundane

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  16. to the magnificent

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  17. twitter as a platform

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  18. pipe your messages

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  19. its not over yet

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  20. thank you!
    txt “follow xentek” to 40404

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