Communications today!

November 2012Edition 1 Year 1

Editorial

With the raise of news technologies, comes your magazine COMMUNICATIONS TODAY. Here you can find a whole an informative analysis of the technological world, in a clear and simple way, just for our reader get all the knowledge require into the news way of communications.

Raúl GómezEditor in chief

TWITTER:“A new way to be connected”

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.

LogoTwitter has become internationally identifiable by its signature bird logo. The original logo was in use from its launch in March 2006 until September 2010. A slightly modified version succeeded the first style when the website underwent its first redesign.

USE AND SOCIAL IMPACT

Twitter has been used for a variety of purposes in many industries and scenarios. For example, it has been used to organize protests, sometimes referred to as "Twitter Revolutions", which include the 2011 Egyptian revolution, 2010–2011 Tunisian protests, 2009–2010 Iranian election protests, and 2009 Moldova civil unrest. The governments of Iran and Egypt blocked the service in retaliation.

The Hill on February 28, 2011 described Twitter and other social media as a "strategic weapon ... which have the apparent ability to re-align the social order in real time, with little or no advanced warning." During the Arab Spring in early 2011, the number of hashtags mentioning the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt increased.

Vocabulary Follow : When you

“follow” someone on Twitter, you add them to your Twitter reading list. Their tweets will appear automatically.

Follower: It’s someone who is following you. However, followers on Twitter are really casual. People follow and unfollow other people freely.

Timeline/stream: The list of new tweets/messages that you get from the people you follow.

Tweet: To post something to Twitter/to write a message on Twitter.

Retweet or RT: To post what someone else wrote again.

Direct message/DM: This is like a private message/PM on a bulletin board/forum system. It’s just between you and the person who gets it. No one else can see it. If your message is personal, use a DM.

Reply : If you start a message with a @username, then that person gets a notice about it in their app or it’s listed in their Replies on Twitter.com.

FACEBOOKFacebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active user, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users must register before using the site, after whicthey may create a personal profile; add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends".

CRITICISMFacebook has met with controversies. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including the People's Republic of China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria (unblocked in Syria), and Bangladesh on different bases. For example, it was banned in many countries of the world on the basis of allowed content judged as anti-Islamic and containing religious discrimination. It has also been banned at many workplaces to prevent employees from using it during work hours.

IMPACTMedia

In April 2011, Facebook launched a new portal for marketers and creative agencies to help them develop brand promotions on Facebook. The company began its push by inviting a select group of British advertising leaders to meet Facebook's top executives at an "influencers' summit" in February 2010. Facebook has now been involved in campaigns for True Blood, American Idol, and Top Gear.

News and media outlets such as the Washington Post,

Financial Times and ABC News have used aggregated Facebook fan data to create various infographics and charts to accompany their articles.

SocialFacebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known to reunite lost family members and friends because of the widespread reach of its network. One such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been seeking for 20 years. They met after Watson found her Facebook profile. Another father-daughter reunion was between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years.

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Bibliografía

http://www.readableblog.com

http://en.wikipedia.org