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On my Twitter accout the one of the top topic was ‘#nowplaying’ - peole were posting what they are listeing right now and talking about album etc. One of the top 10 was about ‘shaun white’ as he won a gold medal in winter olympic.
From the friendfeed, I can gather information about what I am searching or what is my interest right now.
Ross Mayfield (2007) ‘Twitter Tips the Tuna’ he mentioned on his article about the the Twitter – ‘Twitter is Continuous Partial Presence, mostly made up of mundane messages in answer to the question, “what are you doing?” A never-ending steam of presence messages prompts you to update your own. Messages are more ephemeral than IM presence — and posting is of a lower threshold, both because of ease and accessibility, and the informality of the medium.’The Twitter show is the quick snap preview of what is current topic among the people. I don’t agree that the users from Twitter represent all the population but I can see its following the trend and current interest.
I don’t follow any topics on the Twitters but checking the top 10 list of the Twitter, I can see Winter Olympic topic was in top 10. Seeing this global trend didn’t really affect on #net11 group.But I can see some of my followers were talking about Shaun White.
The microblogging is next level up from the long blogs where people read article and write down there though or arguments on the blog page. The microblogging allow users to brifully comments on their though in short terms. It enables the communication to flow fast and easy for the users. Also users are using the mobile phone to also update the microblog, which has helped the microblogging to grow as we can see many people text to communicate their status rather then ring them.
