Facebook often changes its appearance and adds new features in order to keep it up-to-date and also in order to keep its users interested. Similarly the twitter community has launched a new feature “Lists”. This new and exciting feature allows users to create collections of interesting people to follow on the free social networking and micro-blogging service. Now the tweets can be arranged into topic based streams.
“In doing so, the social networking startup may have hit upon the long-overdue cure to information overload and birthed a new breed of editor: the real-time Web curator.” CNN
Content Tsunami
Approximately 25 million Tweets are posted every day; more than 6 billion have been created since Twitter’s launch.
On the other hand, on Facebook, there are now over 45 million status update per day from 30 million unique visitors.
Media production has failed to adopt any precautionary measures. With an inbuilt camera in every ipod and every cell phone we come across every type and kind of news 24/7. the SMS service where everything is integrated with your facebook and twitter accounts, nothing remains hidden.
Filter Your Friends
Many social networking websites are allowing their users personalized experiences. Connect your Facebook account with social news site Digg.com, for instance, and your existing friends become a filter for the most interesting web links.
Similarly Google’s new social search allows its users to filter their friends through their social networking profiles to a Google account where one can easily prioritize group of friends.
From personal to professional
The mere chatting of the past has transformed into information sharing mediam through “Whats On Your Mind”, and “What Are You Doing?”. People use it not only to chat with their friends but also to share links of news, businesses, proposals etc.
this is how people are being linked throughout the world at a fast pace.
The rise of real-time journalism
Every magazine every newspaper is creating an on-line presence. Every journalist wants to be on-line. Keeping this in view media companies, such as The New York Times has created a Twitter list of all its staff, and the Los Angeles Times has set about categorizing Twitter celebrities.