Twitter – Simple Messaging Or The Birth Of A Collective Mind?
November 1st, 2009
One of the intriguing things about Twitter is its complexity disguised as apparent simplicity. On the face of things Twitter appears to be little more than a very simple communication system involving the exchange of short (often meaningless) messages, very similar in concept to a text message on a mobile phone.
In fact, text messaging was the fundamental inspiration for Twitter in the first place. Under the surface, though, things are more complicated, with properties emerging from Twitter that may not have been foreseen in the beginning.
The Power Of A Few Words
Most tweets can be divided into one of several categories:
- Mundane items of little interest to anyone with a life
- Attempts to sell get-rich-quick schemes
- Promises of thousands of new followers (none of whom are interested in you)
- Other types of spam
- Political and religious messages
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