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1. How does Twitter change and expand the way of
communication during these days, and what are
the issues that have been raised by new
technology such as Twitter?
Anaer Anaer(u3022886) T2
Tutor: Phil Cullen

2. General Social Networking Overview
• In the past few decades, new technologies are developing in a wide
and unprecedented way. And they have changed the traditional way
of people communicating.
• People are using e-mail, Facebook, websites, and blogs to contact
with each others.
• However, along with more and more people are using network
today, there are some concerns have been argued.

3. Goal of Research Project
• In this research report, I am going to choose Twitter as my subject
to analysis how does new communication medium change and
expand the way of communication in the society;
• I will also talk about what kinds of issues are being concerned by the
developing of Twitter.
• The two goals we mentioned above just from a general and wide
aspect. In the paper report, the research will go further and detailed.

4. What is Twitter?
• Twitter is a pretty new way of communication.
• Twitter is developed by Jack Dorsey in 2006, and it is a web-based social
networking tool to communicate with other users, and it provides users
platform to deliver and receive shot messages.

5. What is Twitter?
• “Also considered a micro-
blogging site, Twitter users
send ‘tweets’ of up to 140
characters. These tweets are
displayed on an author’s
Twitter home page and on the
pages of people subscribed to
his or her RSS feed.” (Matthew
Glassman, 2009, P 2.)

6. A Visual Guide to Twitter
• (full map at http://applicant.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tweetcurrency1.jpg)

7. A Visual Guide to Twitter
• Based on the visual guide map above, we can see what can Twitter
do as a communication tool.
• For example, Twitter can be a channel of information come and go
through. Twitter users can link to their favorite or useful websites or
article that they can read the news which they are interested in
instantly. Also, Twitter can get traffic to user’s sites or other’s, and
then the messages on the sites will reach further and faster to other
users. So it means using Twitter can pull and deliver traffic to other
platforms (such as Facebook pages, YouTube etc.)

8. Blog vs. Twitter
• As we know, Twitter is a new technology which is developing quickly
just these 5 years. Therefore, when people using it, they all compare
Twitter with other social networking technologies such as Facebook
pages and blogs.
• Here, I will use Blog as an example and see what are the different
between Blog and Twitter. Twitter is kinds of a successive step from
blog. In addition, blogging typically requires users post lengthy articles.
However, Twitter has a challenge that can take the articles apart as
several smaller pieces.

9. Blog vs. Twitter
• In this sense, Twitter asks
users to summary our ideas
and actions in a short and
snappy way. Therefore, as the
outcome, the information can
be posted faster; also Twitter
drive users to the boundary of
real communication as people
can cooperate with each other
in real time.
Slow/
Lengthy
Fast/
Compact
Broadcast
Blog
Twitter

10. International and demographics Twitter users and following

11. Reference
• www.pcpop.com/doc/0/553/553120.shtml
• www.kuqin.com/shuoit/20071225/3076.html
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jim_glass/archive/2009/04/20/a-visual-guide-to-
twitter.aspx
• http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/02/22/twitter-statistics-full-picture/
• http://joaogeraldes.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/this-25-infographic-explores-
twitter-%E2%80%99s-growth-and-over-the-past-four-years/