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Twitter Lists Break Down Barriers to Adoption and Gives More Power to the Influential
The act of creating lists may result in a dual class of Twitizen - Those who are on lists of influential people and those who are not. To some extent lists may freeze the status quo of power structures within Twitter as they exist today, Give those with influence even more, and may make it much harder for new users to be discovered which may hinder engagement by the long tale of users
Continue reading...A Study in Social Media Power Dynamics – The Results of Unfollow Ashton Kutcher Day
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
This post discusses what we learned about power dynamics in social media as a result of Unfollow Ashton Kutcher Day. In summary, Ashton Kutcher was partly right — the little guy does have a voice, no matter how many followers they may have. And this voice has the potential to engage and influence others to take action. It is just that the voices of a “popular few” have much greater reach. The fact that we were unsuccessful does not mean that an individual with relatively little influence cannot generate a social media groundswell that could have viral impact on a mass scale but rather that this attempt did not succeed in achieving its stated goal. This was an imperfect experiment but nonetheless I believe we succeeded in demonstrating both the amazing democratizing effect of social media, as well as, its inherent power imbalances.
Continue reading...What 1 Million Twitter Followers Really Means and why we Should Unfollow Ashton Kutcher on Monday
Friday, April 17, 2009
1 million twitter followers means a shift of power balances from corporate media to individuals and denotes a coming of age of social media. With that comes new concerns of power imbalances.
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- Andrew: Hi Paul, Yes the Twitter native retweet certainly may useful for certain situations and purposes. Still, I think it serves a different purpose than ...
- Paul Gailey: If there is one thing I actually like about the new style retweets is the way which they display a new face into my timeline which draws my attention ...
- Andrew: Hello Tom, Thanks for your comment. Point taken that I mention that you can turn off the broadcasting, but then what is the point? I am not sure tha...
- Andrew: Hello Joel, Thanks for the well thought out and passionate comments. While many of your comments are certainly valid, and others we could debate ti...
- Tom Martin: An interesting take. Agree that the gaming theory addiction has legs but only so far... moms for instance aren't the typical gamer profile. But as ...
- Joel Hughes: Hi Andrew, an interesting post and a refreshing change to hear someone urgency restraint in these location frenzied times :) I would raise a few p...
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