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The Easy Twitter Follow – the Building of Massive Stranger Networks

The Easy Twitter Follow – the Building of Massive Stranger Networks

by on October 4, 2008 in Facebook, Social Media, Social networking, Sociology, Twitter

The participants of the “mature” social networks – MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn – tend to replicate the same network contacts, generally those associated with the individual or industry. The micro-blogging applications Twitter and Friendfeed, and to a lesser extent MyBlogLog, have set up “following” systems that encourage anonymous network linkage. The result is the development of [...]

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