Welcome to Twitter, where everybodies business, is everybodies business.Being a new member to the Twitter world, I am fascinated about the concept of people sharing every aspect of their day with one another. Although, I am still unclear about a few things regarding Twitter, like retweeting more than one person, creating your ouwn "pounds", or who decides what the trending topic will be; I am excited to explore and navigate this new sensation.
To my knowledge, I thought the trending topics came from the founders of this addictive social network, but news organizations, such as, CNN, BBC, NY Times are the source of these topics that ignite worldwide conversation. 22 users have the power to come up with these topics that people look forward to everyday. 72% of these 22 users are run by news organizations.
Twitter is not only used for networking, but it also can be informative. With the injustice in Egypt, protestors have came up with their own trending topic, #Mubarak. I am becoming more and more intrigued with Twitter and find myself browsing through status' and creating my own daily tweets. Maybe one day I will be able to create a trending topic?http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/14/twitter.trends.fast/index.html
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