Over the past six months, as Twitter has evolved from obscure internet phenomenon to overhyped global trend, it has polarised opinion, inspired contempt and, most worryingly, been cast as a possible remedy to the decline of print journalism.
When taken as a crowd phenomenon, however, Twitter becomes more relevant.
Uers can create personal salons in which private conversations are pooled into a single news stream.
As a medium for news, Twitter does have its benefits: it outpaces newspapers, culls information directly from its source and can aggregate content quickly, creating archives and highlighting trends within a remarkably short span of time.
Twitter is less about defining identity than it is about managing the creation of communities and the flow of information. Like the production of news, the ability to decide what is newsworthy is fast becoming a bottom-up process
users can influence content by shaping trends
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