New forms of Media Publishing

Ways of Internet connecting every nation and region

Source: Google (2009)

Internet has been introduced to the public in the early 90's (Answers.com, 2009). Furthermore, the amount of Internet users doubles up every 6 months or 200 days (Maven, 2006).

The examples of popular social networking sites in cover page

Source: Google (2009)

With the technology advancements now a days, it seems that the Internet is providing the users with better application enhancement such as the introduction of new social networking that have been globally adopted in many countries such as Facebook, blogging, Twitter and many more.

One of the examples of Video Blogging (vlog)

Source: Youtube (2009)

But Twitter seems to be the most prevailing social networking amongst the group to me. Twitter's founder was Jack Dorsey and Twitter's project starts since 2006 (Malik, 2009). Since the introduction of Twitter until March 2008, the number of Twitter users are 1+ million from the report of Arrington (2008).

One of the Twitter logos

Source: Google (2009)

According to Wikipedia (2009), Twitter is known as a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables the users to send and receive messages through tweets. Tweet are text-based that enables the authors to post up to the maximum of 140 character in their profile to be read by the readers.

Twitter provides speed, multi-modal with non-website based alerts and also community publishing mentioned by Nate Ritter in the report of Verclas (2008). Furthermore, with the assistance of speedy postings on the web, Twitter is a great tool for the emergency situation such as journalist can report the happenings of natural disaster instantly to alert the residence or people.

How Twitter works as the social network

Source: Google (2009)

But Twitter will also have its bad moments if the false news of a celebrity is spread on Twitter, the news might bring problems to Twitter for not filtering the news because the posts will be moving too fast. Furthermore, pictures are not available for posting on Twitter.

But from the findings of Malik (2009), Twitter might become the next hot platform on the web.

List of References:

Answers.com 2009, WikiAnswers: When did the Internet become available to the public?, Answers Corporation, viewed on 23rd of November 2009,

<http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_the_Internet_become_available_to_the_public>

Arrington, M. 2008, End of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Number, TechCrunch, viewed on 23rd of November 2009,

<http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/29/end-of-speculation-the-real-twitter-usage-numbers/>

Malik, O. 2009, A Brief History of Twitter, WordPress.com, The GigaOM Network, viewed on 23rd of November 2009,

<http://gigaom.com/2009/02/01/a-brief-history-of-twitter/>

Maven, R. 2006, Blogosphere doubling in size every six months, E-consultancy. com Limited, viewed on 20th November 2009,

<http://econsultancy.com/blog/150-blogosphere-doubling-in-size-every-six-months>

Wikipedia 2009, Article: Twitter, The Free Encyclopedia, MediaWiki, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., viewed on 23rd of November 2009,

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter>

Verclas, K. 2008, Twitter for Organizations #1: Guest Blogger Nate Ritter, MobileActive.org, MobileActive, viewed on 23rd of November 2009,

<http://mobileactive.org/twitter-organizations-1-guest-blogger-nate-ritter>