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The Samsung Galaxy S III is a touchscreen-based, slate-format Android smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It sees additional software features, expanded hardware, and a redesigned physique than its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S II. The S III contains a quad-core processor, and employs an intelligent personal assistant (S Voice), eye-tracking ability, increased storage, and a wireless charging option. Depending on country, the Template:Convert smartphone comes with different processors and RAM capacity, and 4G LTE support.[1] The device was launched with Android 4.0.4 "Ice Cream Sandwich", and is in the process of being updated to Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean".
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About Company
Not only can you tweet whatever you want, you can also reply to others tweets simply by mentioning the other user in your tweet. Mentioning someone can be done by using the "@" sign followed by their Twitter username. Users have the ability to mention more than one user in a tweet, too.
"Retweeting" is common on Twitter as well. If users want to copy someone's tweet so that one's own followers see it, they can do so by retweeting it and either adding text to the retweet (if you have enough characters left) or simply retweet it with no additions.
To help with the small character limit in tweets, there are tons of URL shortening services that are commonly used. Some include: bit.ly, Twitpic, and Twitter has it's own t.co domain that shortens all URLs posted on the site. Users are also able to tweet photos and videos via these link shortening services.
History
The founders of Twitter were Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan WIlliams and Biz Stone. Jack Dorsey launched Twitter on July 15th, 2006 where it rapidly gained users worldwide. Currently, it has over 380 millions accounts and generates over 300 million tweets per day. People often refer to Twitter as "the SMS of the Internet[3]."
The company that operates Twitter (Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco. The word "twitter" was a perfect name for the site according to Dorsey. He explains that its definition is 'a short bust of inconsequential information' and 'chirps from birds'. [4] This refers to the 140 character limit.
Dorsey remained the chief executive officer of Twitter until October 16, 2008 when Evan Williams took over the CEO role, and Dorsey became chairman of the board. Williams stepped down as CEO 2 years later, in 2010, and Twitter's chief operating officer (COO), Dick Costolo became the new (and current) CEO. Dorsey remains an executive chairman to this day[3].
After Costolo took over, Twitter started to gain significantly more users. Twitter went from 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007, to 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008, and by March 2010, users were sending 50 million tweets per day[3]
The Twitter interface remained the same through much of this growth, but in late 2010, the company began rolling out a revamped Twitter. The new site now had the ability to see pictures and videos without leaving Twitter itself by supporting websites including YouTube and Flickr. These are generally hosted on twitpic.com. In December 2011, Twitter had launched a major redesigned to create a more efficient and accessible user interface to a attract new users. The design includes four labels on top of the site: home, connect, discover, and the user. The user's profile and trending topics are on the left, while the tweets are on the right side. The new design is to compete with Facebook's new timeline interface to create a more timeless experience for the user.
Twitter is currently located at 795 Folsom St. in San Francisco, CA. In 2010 they had $140 million in revenue and over 600 employees. They are currently ranked 9th on Alexa and supports many languages[3]. In December 2011, Twitter announced that it will move into their new headquarters on June 2012. The new headquarters will be moved from the Folsom St. to the Market Square building on 1355 Market St. in San Francisco, CA. The company has plans to increase its workforce to about 3,000 by 2013[5].
Features
Twitter encourages you to "follow your interests[6]." It is common to follow your friends, industry experts, and celebrities. Once an account is set up, users' tweets are publicly visible by default. However, there is a setting that allows people to restrict their viewers by privatizing their account. People can "tweet" from a computer on the website, from smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices, or via text message (SMS). Applications have been developed by Twitter itself for Apple computers, Apple iOS devices, Android devices, and Blackberry devices. Other third party applications, such as UberSocial or HootSuite have also been developed to aid in the tweeting process.
Patents
One of Twitter's main features is the trending topics feature on the right sidebar of the site. Users will group together topics by the use of "hashtags." Hashtags are words or phrases starting with the "#" sign. Users may view what topics are trending in certain cities or what is trending worldwide. Trending topics become popular through word of mouth and are the way that people often first learn of breaking news.
Aside from the general trending topics, there are also promoted topics. In these promoted topics, companies can pay a fee to have their topic appear at the top of the list with the other trending topics that people look for.
Direct Messages
Other than tweeting, users have the ability to direct message or "DM" other users. Direct messages are privately sent messages that only the people you send it to can see. The only way two users can direct message each other is if they are both following each other.
Verified Accounts
Verified accounts were introduced on Twitter in order to create revenue as well as to protect corporations and celebrities from fake Twitter sites distributing inaccurate information to followers. These verified accounts are obtained through payment to Twitter. A verified account is displayed by a blue and white check symbol following the username of the individual of corporation. This is Twitter's way of confirming that the individual or corporation is who they claim to be.
Updates
Twitter recently released a formatting update, renaming several of the features and creating an activity log. Twitter selects a few top stories, videos or topics under the "Discover" page and connects news articles or YouTube videos with tweets about that topic. They also released the "Connect" page that shows new followers, mentions and retweets.
Galaxy S3 as a Moral Agent
As with other social media technologies, Twitter has been targeted as an example of how technology is reducing the quality of human interaction and language in society. Twitter, in particular, relies on fast-paced updates and abbreviations in order to meet the 140 character limitation. Because of this environment, more interesting forms of spelling and slang has been developed through this concise interaction. Many English teachers have bemoaned the apparent deteriorating state of the vernacular.
Privacy
Privacy, specifically Privacy in Social Networking, is another issue that arises with Twitter. When an account is set to private, other users cannot retweet a private user's tweets, however there is always the option to copy and paste a certain text or passage into a new tweet. In this way, the tweet will not show as one of your own tweets retweeted, but rather as a separate tweet from the second user. Either way, once the information is out to the world, it cannot be withdrawn. So, in essence, an account is never fully privatized. Especially high profile people like celebrities, their tweets are under a microscope. People are in essence creating a brand name for themselves. Who they follow, what the retweet, and what they tweet is how their reputation is made. It's not about who they actually are or their intentions, it's how Twitter makes them come across to the world. Is all of this ethical? It is ethical to not be able to fully keep anything on Twitter private?
In April 2010, Twitter and the United States Library of Congress announced a partnership in which every public tweet since Twitter's inception in 2006 will be digitally archived[7].
Organizing
Twitter has had an increased use forms of community organizing, protests, and creating awareness. Twitter's hasthtags provide a convenient means for users to collect data on a common page. For example when the Iowa Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage the hashtag #iagaymarriage was created by The Des Moines Register to tweet about the event. Other news agencies used the same hashtag and it became a very common hashtag for news on the topic[8].
Twitter has created online citizen journalism giving people the ability to share images and news directly from the source of events. News sources can combine traditional reporting methods, with first hand accounts of tweets as seen in this aricle from The Lede on protesters being hit with tear gas at an Occupy protest in Oakland[9].
Twitter has been used to organize people for protest across the Middle East. The revolutions that have occured in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya are collectively called the Arab Sping. The use of social media is widely used for organization of protests because it is hard for the Internet to censor these types of communication. For example, in Egypt, the government tried to counter the tweets but shuting down Internet access to the country, but 10,000 people still got the message and arrived in Egypts major cities to protest the current government. [10].Through the use of social media, there is the potential to organize oppostion and create revolutions.
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- ↑ Trew, James · (3 May 2012) · Samsung Galaxy S III is official: 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, quad-core Exynos processor and gesture functions · Engadget · AOL · 5 May 2012
- ↑ http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/facebook-twitter-linkedin-active-users_b13547
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Wikipedia:Twitter
- ↑ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/twitter-creator.html
- ↑ http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-04-23/business/30226870_1_tenderloin-areas-twitter-and-other-companies-central-market
- ↑ http://www.twitter.com
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-081.html
- ↑ Seward, Zachary (2009). Des Moines Register created Twitter hashtag for gay marriage ruling, Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/04/des-moines-register-created-twitter-hashtag-for-gay-marriage-ruling/
- ↑ Malia Wollan, Goodman David and Maslin, Sarah (2011). Police Fire Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in Oakland http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/police-said-to-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-in-oakland-calif/?hp.
- ↑ Arab Spring. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
