Jaiku. Popupviatwitter. Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks: Why Facebook will go F. A description of symmetry and how it affects relationships in social networks. Also, a prediction that Facebook will eventually go asymmetric. Recent events have made it clear that Facebook sees Twitter as a serious threat to its business. First, Facebook tried to buy Twitter for $500,000,000 in stock. Twitter declined. Facebook then began describing their service in increasingly-twitter like ways, such as during the Inauguration when they showed a “live stream” of chatter alongside CNN news. In addition, Facebook redesigned their Pages feature.
This, of course, is how Twitter works. Relationship Symmetry In general, there are two ways to model human relationships in software. Facebook, on the other hand, has always used a “symmetric” model, where each time you add someone as a friend they have to add you as a friend as well. Andrew Chen recently described one advantage of the Twitter model. Attention Inequality & the Power of Asymmetry We understand that attention is often one-way. Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System. I’ve seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump. Bear with me. Insight #1 An article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter was just published today on the Harvard Business Review website, titled On Twitter and in the Workplace, It’s Power to the Connectors. In it, she highlights the fact that there is an organizational trend moving away from the hierarchical networks of the 20th century, and towards complex, distributed, non-hierarchical structures of business organization and leadership.
She also points out that success today is based on a person’s ability to leverage power and influence within their social networks, to act as “connectors” between people and information, and in turn build social capital. She leaves the evaluation of the significance of Twitter open-ended, but she lays out a few characteristics of Twitter that I found most interesting: Insight #2 Insight #3.
Ultimate Twitter Study. Artists, Bands and Musicians on Twitter - Google Documenten. Twitter.pdf (application/pdf-object) An investigation into user appropriation of a web-based communic. RECAP: 2014 Polis Journalism Conference| The 5th Polis Journalism Conference on the topic of Transparency and Accountability was the biggest and most successful yet. The LSE now hosts the UK's most important annual gathering of international journalists.
There were at least 700 attendees throughout the day to watch more than 40 speakers from the media industry. Highlights of the conference included keynotes by Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Guardian and Ian Katz, Editor of BBC Newsnight in conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News.