Sunday, March 23, 2014
How new media fosters creativity
Twitter has been
into this world, for many years, and we have seen a lot of creativity within
this new technology. It started as a micro-blogging service, providing the
users the service to pose 140-character messages. But, today, we can see many
new features and new services added to this social-networking site. Twitter has
incorporated new feature of Lists, Re-tweets, Hash Tags, Hyperlinks, and a
feature of posting images. All these were not even thought of to be a part of
Twitter.
Twitter has
relied upon its user to foster creativity and innovation within their
organization. And, this can be even considered to be true since people can
easily exchange and share their ideas over the Internet. They can easily boost
creativity amongst the large masses of people. Twitter, just like any other
technology company as left innovation up to its users. The feature of referring
to someone with the help of @ symbol was initiated by the user of Twitter. It
was the Twitter founder Biz Stone, who had first utilized this symbol to
address some (Miller, 2009). Twitter is also relying upon Twitter application
software developers, to bring in new ideas and concepts, which will make
Twitter more interesting, fascinating, and needful to its users. Twitter has
already incorporated search engine, which is now considered to be the central
part of the entire organization. They have even incorporated the hash tag for
creating hyperlinks. This enables the users to click on it, and see all the
relevant posts on that topic. Some of these might even appear to be trending,
which in itself is another important innovation in Twitter. Miller mentions
that, Twitter is thus relying upon its users, its software developer’s team,
and other competitive media tools for boosting and encouraging creativity. They
can thus continue this process of boosting creativity, and thereby making
Twitter more useful to all its users.
References
Miller, C.C.
"Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers." The New York Times. 25 Oct 2009. Web. 19 Mar 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html
