2009 saw Twitter grow into the most popular micro-blogging platform with over 7 billion tweets. The people over at TechXav have a nice collection of infographics that are worth a gander. Pop the hood for more.
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Twitter Community Visualized
NYC-based designer Ji Lee visualizes 10 ways we communicate in the digital age.
Li states:
The digital age has transformed the ways in which we communicate with each other. The combination of technology and power of information brings new ways on HOW, WITH WHOM and WHY we communicate. We are connected with more people than ever before. Do more options to communicate with each other connect us or alienate us more?
Here’s an interesting infographic visualizing the twitter community if there were only 100 people. We want to know who the loud mouths are…
Thanks Sarah for the tip!
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Here’s something to think about this morning found over at Designmind.
Amidst all the Twittermania, it’s good to remember that the short form has a long history: Aphorisms revealed “truisms” long before 140-character tweets became the predominant art form of the short-attention-span-economy. “An aphorism is a novel packed into a single line,” said Oleg Vishnepolsky, using an aphorism himself, or as Wikipedia puts it, an aphorism is a “concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.” Unlike tweets, aphorisms are philosophical rather than mundane, but like tweets their beauty lies in their economy: they’re accurate while leaving the all-too-literal unsaid.
Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Everyone seems to be talking about Twittering these days. I for one still don’t get the craze to “tweet”. I personally don’t give a sh*t what people are doing every second of the day. For those of you on the fence see the video above that explains the dynamics of Twittering in plain English.
via DavidReport:
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