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...limit allows tweets to be created and circulated via the SMS platform used by most mobile phones.) As a social network, Twitter revolves around the principle of followers. When you choose to follow another Twitter user, that user's tweets appear in reverse chronological order on your main Twitter page. If you follow 20 people, you'll see a mix of tweets scrolling down the page: breakfast-cereal updates, interesting new links, music recommendations, even musings on the future of education. Some celebrity Twitterers - most famously Ashton Kutcher - have crossed the million-follower mark, effectively giving them a broadcast-size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...people we follow. Instead of being built by some kind of artificially intelligent software algorithm, a customized newspaper will be compiled from all the articles being read that morning by your social network. This will lead to more news diversity and polarization at the same time: your networked front page will be more eclectic than any traditional-newspaper front page, but political partisans looking to enhance their own private echo chamber will be able to tune out opposing viewpoints more easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...Advertising. Today the language of advertising is dominated by the notion of impressions: how many times an advertiser can get its brand in front of a potential customer's eyeballs, whether on a billboard, a Web page or a NASCAR hood. But impressions are fleeting things, especially compared with the enduring relationships of followers. Successful businesses will have millions of Twitter followers (and will pay good money to attract them), and a whole new language of tweet-based customer interaction will evolve to keep those followers engaged: early access to new products or deals, live customer service, customer involvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...said. Although Cosby had not declared his major, Denise Cosby said that her son had shared his post-college plans of “going into computers and looking forward to a nice, comfortable life.”Friends posting farewell messages on Cosby’s Facebook profile page paid tribute to the amateur basketball player as a strong presence in their social circle who always had a smile on his face.Lucas R. Toffoli ’09, a resident of Mather House, first met Cosby in kindergarten. The two quickly bonded during recess, and by second grade, they...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Justin Cosby | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

Whether the first-year President was truly indignant about the headline emblazoned on the front page of her morning newspaper or whether her reaction was merely an attempt at damage control is difficult to discern. Regardless, Drew G. Faust, in a break with her usual public restraint, wasted no time in quashing the report.“Harvard is not ‘rethinking’ Allston,” she wrote that December morning in 2007 when the article was published. “I am unequivocally committed to moving aggressively and ambitiously forward, and to making our unfolding...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Once Ambitious, Harvard Revisits Allston Planning | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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