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Twitter isn't a social network anymore

Posted May 5th, 2010 at 9:26 AM and seen
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Can I say, “I told you so?” Lance Ulanoff reports that “Twitter Is the New CNN.” He summarized a study done by Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, and Sue Moon from the Department of Computer Science, KAIST (Korea). This is a presentation of the results of the study:

What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?

Read Lance’s analysis at PC Magazine.

A vast amount of Twitter tips.

 Guy Kawasaki

Comments (8)

May 05, 2010
Joe Santisi said...
Twitter is positioned to be your local News Paper as well.
May 05, 2010
concrete5 said...
"the media" is a modern invention, maybe 200 years old. Before that we all just listened to the trustworthy guy at the end of the block. It seems like we're coming around to a more egalitarian approach, just on a larger scale. Yay.

-Franz Maruna
CEO, http://concrete5.org

May 05, 2010
alexvdm said...
Twitter the new CNN ? Ok but indeed a kind of disappointment...that Twitter is 'just' a new CNN - was thinking it could be a kind of game-changing thing. Cfr as well Jan. blog entry on how Twitter is becoming an 'elite social bookmarking tool' http://bit.ly/cwTX1M
May 05, 2010
Peter Johannsen said...
If twitter is the New CNN then http://bit.ly/8Y7ZwF will be my new TV
May 06, 2010
rgogos said...
News by the people, for the people. interesting. Hey Lance - slides #10 & #12 are the same!
May 06, 2010
Sam L said...
One phrase summons it up - The Power of Twitter! Engagement, Distribution, Referring Tool and all in Real-Time
May 06, 2010
saractravels said...
Twitter is the new RSS
May 06, 2010
Social Tool said...
It is kind of awe inspiring how social media tools in their infant stages seems so simple, take facebook for example, has now grown into a much larger field.

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