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What kind of new media is Twitter?

Posted in Reflexion on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 13:46 1 Comments

I’ll guess you already know Twitter (if not you can refer to Twitter for dummies). Initially, it is a social communication tool to answer the fundamental question: “What are you doing?”.  So you are not really convinced? I understand but there is actually a growing buzz about Twitter, its community and all the ecosystem or related tools. But let’s analyse the specifities of this new media.

A new media

When you read the homepage of Twitter.com, you may still wonder what so different about this communication tool. You can read more about “How Twitter was born“, but I’ll give here my vision of what is this media.

Let’s put it like that:  blog + instant messaging/sms + tribe = Twitter ! It sounds simple but

1 Comments to “What kind of new media is Twitter?”

  1. Jen Harris says:

    I just posted today on the reality of why you should use social media in general (and of course Twitter!) for your business.
    http://caffeinatedMarketing.wordpress.com
    I am a believer.
    Our hits & conversion rate have gone up since I started being the voice of TSheets on Twitter. Of course I am active in a plethora of other online mediums, but we are finding huge success on Twitter!
    Thanks
    -jen
    @TSheets

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