The Diffusion of Twitter Twitter is currently one of the fastest growing social networking trends on the web. The service is becoming increasingly more symbolic of a tech oriented culture engaged in constant collaboration. In 2009 alone the network has grown more than 100%. Many current trends are indicating that Twitter could be well on its way to becoming one of the top social networks. This paper will examine twitters potential as a way of seeking and sharing information. The paper will also
TOPIC AND FORMAT Twitter is a social messaging tool offers users a way to constantly keep in touch with their friends, family and other users worldwide. Twitter values itself on being unique in that it reduces information overload by simply conveying to its users one simple piece of information – “what everyone you know is doing”. Today, backed by a wide array of established users and supporters, Twitter has positioned itself as a popular Web 2.0 communication tool, well-suited for today’s online
Twitter is an online blogging tool that allows people all over the world to upload information about themselves. Founded by Evan Williams, you can create status updates letting people know how you feel and what you are doing at all times. You can also choose to follow certain people and see what they have to say as well. Twitter is not just used through the computer; people can also use it through their cell phones or ipads as an application. There are a couple different factors that play into the
Subject: Twitter Implementation at University of Maryland University College University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is a cutting edge university. UMUC offers the most advanced and cutting edge majors to its students. Integrating Twitter into the student’s experience at UMUC will continue the cutting edge experience. Currently many universities use Twitter for a variety of reasons. Universities utilize Twitter to help supplement their online course offerings. Twitter is used to
Michael Herrold 9/27/12 Language and Communication Twitter Essay Paper #1 Twitter has quickly become one of the most popular forms of social media in the world and its value is of utmost importance to thousands of groups and organizations. Recently, it has received an overwhelming number of posts due to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, which took place in the last week of August and the 1st week of September, respectively. I decided to follow one individual who tweeted
Twitter: Case Write Up Historical Overview Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since Twitter launched, it’s become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet”. Unregistered
1299648 Twitter IPO The Financials and The Risk Factors Twitter IPO The Financials and The Risk Factors Introduction Twitter is a web based social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets” i.e. the text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco
applies the fitted model over the time series of the test tweet to predict future values. We report our prediction results and findings in this paper. 1 Introduction Retweeting is one of the most important features in microblogging sites such as Twitter and Sina Weibo and examining retweeting behavior has been an active research area recently [5–8]. The retweeting mechanism empowers users to spread their ideas beyond the reach of the original tweet’s followers. The process can be regarded as information
have hopefully caught on to the ever expanding trend of using social media, or more specifically Twitter, for one or multiple purposes related to their business. Some prefer to simply market selling products or services, some like to provide blogs or journal writings about their company, some take the route of providing customer service, and some even combine all three. Dell takes their use of twitter to an amazing level, and sets the bar on standards every company should strive for. Some companies
1 INTRODUCTION OF THE TOPIC 1.1 Definition of Twitter Twitter is a free service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What´s happening? It is a quick and fast way to stay updated. Besides just friends, you can get updates on many things that you enjoy, from news, to gossip, and updates with software. 1.2 Formation of Twitter Twitter was founded in March 2006 by Evan Williams (CEO), Jack