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How became popular ? What is the secret of its success ?

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Table of contentWhat is Twitter ? Background ..Twitter Popularity .Tweets Types.Fierce Competitions.Twitter Demographics.Twitter and Politics.Conclusion.Q&A

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Twitter

A short messaging service launched on October 2006. Allows users to say “What they are doing right now” ? Maximum 140 Characters to publish! Either online (Twitter.com) , Desktop application or Mobile(http://m.twitter.com/).

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Went beyond expectations by 2009. Twitter re-vamped by August 2009 . Became a “Show and discover what is happening right now in the world” messaging service. Does that mean that it would become a real-time journal ?

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=ِEvan William5 Nader

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Traditional Media & Twitter Traditional Media : Millions $ invested to create content. Writers , Editors, advertisers etc. positions are necessary. New Social Media (Twitter) : Doesn’t matter if not even read by millions! lack of accredited professional writers. Average folk can talk. People became producers rather than just consumers ! Producers hear back from their consumers regularly.

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Twitter Popularity Messages are very short (140 characters!) Not boring to Tweet ! Message limitation encourages creativity (This is the secret). A great market channel for businesses. Therefore , a great revenue channel as well.

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After all ….

It is FUN …

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Tweets Types News Spam Self-Promotion Pointless Bobbles. Conversational. Pass-Along Value.

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Who Won ?9 Nader

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Twitter Demographics

According to quantcast.com :

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http://www.quantcast.com/twitter.com/demographics

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Twitter and Politics Helps citizens report news in repressive regimes. Helps real news to gain the information instantly. Then, helps government to be informed of what is

happening instantly. well.

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Conclusion William changed the world of media into digitization, the so called

Web 2.0. Twitter limitation in short messages made it successful. Twitter limitation made it more encouraging and easy to use. Users can “Tweet” in many different ways. There are many different types of messages to publish. Twitter changes the nature of politics. Twitter made it easy for people to report news in repressive

regimes. Twitter have won many fierce competitions. Twitter made the life more social. After all , Twitter is FUN !

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References James , L . (2007) Twitter. www.online-pr.com/Holding/Twitter.pdf

[Accessed August 12 2009]. Kelly , R. (2009) Twitter Study.

http://www.pearanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Twitter-Study-August-2009.pdf [Accessed August 10 2009].

Quantcast(2009).http://www.quantcast.com/twitter.com/demographics [Accessed August 13 2009]

Robbins , A. (2009) Twitter Power : How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time. John Wiley and sons , Inc , New Jersey.

Shirky , C. (2009) How social media can make history. http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html [Accessed August 11 2009].

http://www.pownce.com [Accessed August 12 2009]

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