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Assignment 5
Lisa BlockHC 205
Fall 2007
How is Twitter different than
normal blogging?
Mobile Connectivity
update from anywhere, anytime
What’s On Your Mindwhere are you and what are you thinking about at any
given moment
Quickershorter messages are quicker to
create
Microblogginguse more often, only 140 characters per tweet
Following; see what your friends are doing
Blogging
More Formalreceive better response with full sentences
and well thought out structure
Takes More Timeneed more time to formulate ideas and
decide how to present them
Better Organized(hopefully) well thought out and presented
More Informationno limit to characters allowed
includes details
How difficult was it to learn to use both Twitter and YouTube or
SlideShare?
Simple Directions
Previous Knowledge
made it easy to sign up and use accounts
Easy to Connectjust agree to following, or search for
someone you would like to follow
What community aspects of both sites exist?
Following (Twitter)adding friends to see what they are doing/thinking
Contacts (SlideShare)More like a professional relationship than a personal one
Search by Shared Interest
Personal Information (T)what you are doing, how you are feeling, etc.
Educational Information (SS)give out information on a topic
Favouriteswhether it be an update (T) or a presentation (SS)
Privacycontrol who sees your entries
Did you use any of these community aspects? What were your thoughts if
you did?
Followed Friendseasy for me to waste time (and see what everyone else was up to on one page)
Informationposted about 15 tweets, it was entertaining and slightly addictive.plan to add a slideshow on slideshare, seems like it would be more
fun on a more personal topic.
The End
Random Note: Looking at my Twitter account I realized 10/17 of my Tweets mentioned
gymnastics in some way… I need a less time intensive sport.