Twitter: A Global Social Micro-Blog
Founded by Jack Dorsey, an American software architect and businessman, Twitter gained widespread world-wide notability just three years after being founded in 2006. Revolutionizing socialization on the Internet, through transformed social media, Twitter’s popularity was gained through free- marketing techniques made possible by mainstream mass media sources — this idea of free word of mouth marketing was greatly appreciated by a company founded on a small capital, now collecting revenue in excess of $400,000. Often called the “SMS of the Internet”, Twitter first introduced a largely accepted concept of “micro-blogging”; textual updates restricted to a mere 140 characters for a more digestible form of user-generated content share — allowing users various options to post their content including the popular web-base interface, third party applications, social clients, browser applications, website feeding, and mobile phone utilization. At the closing of 2009; updates, also known as “tweets” were currently being sent and exchanged between millions of users in a globally diverse interconnected society — this diversity allowing millions to come together in a properly structured social networking medium.
To date, more than 262 websites currently exist or have previously existed, operating with the same features and socialization networking objectives as Twitter; these sites referred to as “Twitter clones”. Revealing an intensified global impact, most of these clones exist in various countries in the native tongue of each; the influence of Twitter within The United States has inspired clones to appear in Japan, China, Germany, India, Spain, Poland, France, Korea, Hungry, Indonesia, Mexico, Singapore, Czech, Turkey, Portugal, and more… With the abundance of so many sites popping up in a global subculture, Twitter can be dubbed as a raving success; as everyone wants their own piece of the micro-blogging pie.
China remains at the top of the list with 27 Twitter clones and 17 like Twitter networking mediums, of past and present use; Germany claims second place with 21, Japan with 20, Poland and Hungary have six each, Spain and The Netherlands bare five each, France four, India and Russia tie with three each, while Korea has two. Mexico, Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, Czech, and Italy are counties that have a single Twitter clone, in their native language; while the United States has been reported to have had more than eighty past and present clones. Yet, web research, baring the expense of exceptional searching yield a result that over 100 more clones exist; each with similar objective functions, a number rapidly changing as newly built sites are added to a complex puzzle — to be exact, 132 additional clones have been found, some of these sites have failed in misery losing the funding to stay open while others are functioning on a bare network of members. Even Yahoo, transformed for the greater good of its members; has even jumped on the cloned bandwagon to its Portuguese cliental.
Most Popular 250 Cloned Twitter Sites provides more details and links for the global acceptance of Twitter’s micro-blogging influence.
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