Network culture
Twitter is ten years old
Whether as a news source or a useless pastime: Twitter has become indispensable in the digital world. 21. March is the micro-blogging service ten years old. #Happy birthday!
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The most common Twitter photo
With over three million Retweets, and numerous famous actors on the photo of this Selfie is one of the most successful tweet of all time. The American presenter Ellen DeGeneres (front, in white Blazer) posted this snapshot during the Oscar award ceremony 2014, and caused a viral Klickhit.
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“Damn, Daniel!”
Who has heard of “Damn, Daniel!” still nothing, do not know may also be in the Twitter universe. Josh wood (R.) took advantage of the spell, to praise in a Video-Collage of the everyday Outfits of his friend Daniel Lara (l.). For Twitter out jumped for the young Californians of fame and a truckload of white shoes.
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#outcry
The Hashtag #aufschrei was initially used by women in order to make the Internet their experiences with everyday sexism and misogyny in Germany to your attention. The word became a buzzword in the debate over sexism, is now used but on Twitter and in other contexts.
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The beginnings of Twitter
21. In March 2006, the first day of the short message service, common founder Jack Dorsey, short @jack: “just setting up my twttr”. To English: “set up my Twitter”. The first Tweet, and the birth of the micro-blogging platform.
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“Four more years”
The soon to be Ex-President of the United States, Barack Obama, posted this photo of his wife, Michelle, and him after his re-election to a second term as head of state in November 2012. The Retweet numbers have skyrocketed: According to the current condition, approximately 780,000 Users are more widespread, the Tweet.
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#egypt
During the Arab spring, local Twitter Users and journalists use egypt the Hashtag #, to report on the regime’s overthrow in Egypt. Journalists around the world, based on the information provided to you in Twitter. In February 2011, the ruler Hosni Mubarak, said the long-term for his resignation.
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#jesuischarlie
This Slogan was used as a Hashtag on Twitter to show solidarity against Islamic Terror and sympathy with the Victims of the attack on the editorial office of the French satire magazine “Charlie Hebdo” to Express. On 7. In January 2015, killed two terrorists in the premises of the magazine eleven people. Within a week the Hashtag has been used five million Times.
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The Council of world stars
The American Pop-Queen and artist, Stefani Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga, posted this simple, motivating message in the year 2011 and scored a Hit: “Never be afraid to dream.” In English: “never be afraid to dream.” Five years later, she is one of the biggest pop artists of the 21st century. Century.
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News of the British Royal family
The first son of Prince William and his wife Catherine was at 22. July 2013 born. The birth of Royal Baby George, it was announced on Twitter. The Tweet was freely translated: “her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge, brought to at 16:24, a son to the world.” Catherine Charlotte gave birth to in the year 2015, your daughter. The world knew – of course – on Twitter.
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Live from the field
After the German national team in 2014 won the football world Cup in Brazil, posted the two national players Lukas Podolski (l.) and Bastian Schweinsteiger (R) of this winner-Selfie directly from the field. The Team not only won the world Cup: The Tweet has been shared 80,000 Times. However, it will be the both the world Cup probably worth more…
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The most common Twitter photo
With over three million Retweets, and numerous famous actors on the photo of this Selfie is one of the most successful tweet of all time. The American presenter Ellen DeGeneres (front, in white Blazer) posted this snapshot during the Oscar award ceremony 2014, and caused a viral Klickhit.
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“Damn, Daniel!”
Who has heard of “Damn, Daniel!” still nothing, do not know may also be in the Twitter universe. Josh wood (R.) took advantage of the spell, to praise in a Video-Collage of the everyday Outfits of his friend Daniel Lara (l.). For Twitter out jumped for the young Californians of fame and a truckload of white shoes.
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#outcry
The Hashtag #aufschrei was initially used by women in order to make the Internet their experiences with everyday sexism and misogyny in Germany to your attention. The word became a buzzword in the debate over sexism, is now used but on Twitter and in other contexts.
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The beginnings of Twitter
21. In March 2006, the first day of the short message service, common founder Jack Dorsey, short @jack: “just setting up my twttr”. To English: “set up my Twitter”. The first Tweet, and the birth of the micro-blogging platform.
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“Four more years”
The soon to be Ex-President of the United States, Barack Obama, posted this photo of his wife, Michelle, and him after his re-election to a second term as head of state in November 2012. The Retweet numbers have skyrocketed: According to the current condition, approximately 780,000 Users are more widespread, the Tweet.
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#egypt
During the Arab spring, local Twitter Users and journalists use egypt the Hashtag #, to report on the regime’s overthrow in Egypt. Journalists around the world, based on the information provided to you in Twitter. In February 2011, the ruler Hosni Mubarak, said the long-term for his resignation.
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#jesuischarlie
This Slogan was used as a Hashtag on Twitter to show solidarity against Islamic Terror and sympathy with the Victims of the attack on the editorial office of the French satire magazine “Charlie Hebdo” to Express. On 7. In January 2015, killed two terrorists in the premises of the magazine eleven people. Within a week the Hashtag has been used five million Times.
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The Council of world stars
The American Pop-Queen and artist, Stefani Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga, posted this simple, motivating message in the year 2011 and scored a Hit: “Never be afraid to dream.” In English: “never be afraid to dream.” Five years later, she is one of the biggest pop artists of the 21st century. Century.
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News of the British Royal family
The first son of Prince William and his wife Catherine was at 22. July 2013 born. The birth of Royal Baby George, it was announced on Twitter. The Tweet was freely translated: “her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge, brought to at 16:24, a son to the world.” Catherine Charlotte gave birth to in the year 2015, your daughter. The world knew – of course – on Twitter.
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Live from the field
After the German national team in 2014 won the football world Cup in Brazil, posted the two national players Lukas Podolski (l.) and Bastian Schweinsteiger (R) of this winner-Selfie directly from the field. The Team not only won the world Cup: The Tweet has been shared 80,000 Times. However, it will be the both the world Cup probably worth more…
Twitter allows its users to Tweets, i.e. short messages, to spread in the Form of up to 140 characters, images, Links or Videos. Therefore, the service is sometimes referred to as the “SMS of the Internet”. Registered users can mouse click people select which they want to follow. This means you can decide whose Tweets you want to get on your private home display. So you create your own digital message flow. The currency on Twitter, the number of those who follow you, the number of “Followers”. To broaden the peak in this discipline, the musician Katy Perry or Justin Bieber, with around 80 million people. Jack Dorsey founded Twitter in 2006.
To make your own Tweets in the constant Twitter flow better found, can provide a user his messages with so-called “Hashtags”, a hash with a key term. So Twitter users can search directly for a specific keyword. For example, “#example”: When typing in the search box, Twitter displays all Tweets that were tagged by other users with “#example”.
Breaking news in under 140 characters
In January 2011, is Twitter for many journalists is of great importance: the protesters in the Middle East, took advantage of networks such as Twitter and Facebook, to organize their resistance against oppressive regimes. In the course of the so-called “Arab spring” have been Tweets, for example, under the Hashtag “#egypt ” news sources, which supplied the world with information of on-the-spot. During important Events, the service registered a good dog and thousands of Tweets per second. As US President Barack Obama was elected in 2012 for his second term, indexed to the platform over 320,000 Tweets per second.
Shortly before the tenth anniversary of Twitter, it became known that the number of active users has declined in the last quarter of 2015 for the first time. It is expected an SMS service, in case of stagnating
around 320 million Twitter users worldwide (as of January 2016).