Twitter: A new breed of social networking
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In the form of a different type of communication and different relationships motivated by not so common reasons, microblogging has come to set a new trend on social networks. Twitter.com, founded on March 2006, was the obvious choice as it is the leading microblogging platform around. In a immersive ethnographic study performed there, I've analyzed this new breed of relationships and communications between their users and suggest these two hypothesis form what I call, a new form of social networking. Author
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تاریخ انتشار 2009