The document provides an overview of communications technologies and social media. It discusses the rise of Twitter and how it allows users to send short text messages. It also discusses how Twitter has been used to organize protests. Facebook is introduced as a social networking service with over 1 billion active users that allows users to connect with friends and join groups. Both Twitter and Facebook have faced some criticism and controversies over blocked content and workplace bans. Overall, the document shows how new technologies are changing how people connect and organize socially.

1. Communications today!
November 2012
Edition 1 Year 1

2. 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 Gómez
Editor in chief

3. 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.
Logo
Twitter 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.

4. USE AND
SOCIAL
IMPACT
Twitter has been used
for a variety of
purposes in many
industries and
scenarios. For
The Hill on February
example, it has been
28, 2011 described
used to organize
Twitter and other
protests, sometimes
social media as a
referred to as "Twitter
"strategic weapon ...
Revolutions", which
which have the
include the 2011
apparent ability to
Egyptian
re-align the social
revolution, 2010–2011
order in real
Tunisian protests, 2009–
time, with little or no
2010 Iranian election
advanced warning."
protests, and 2009
During the Arab
Moldova civil unrest.
Spring in early
The governments of
2011, the number of
Iran and Egypt
hashtags mentioning
blocked the service in
the uprisings in Tunisia
retaliation.
and Egypt increased.

5. Vocabulary
 Follow : When you
“follow” someone on
Twitter, you add them to
your Twitter reading list.
Their tweets will appear
automatically.  Retweet or RT: To
 Follower: It’s someone post what someone
who is following you. else wrote again.
However, followers on  Direct message/DM:
Twitter are really casual. This is like a private
People follow and message/PM on a
unfollow other people bulletin board/forum
freely. system. It’s just
 Timeline/stream: The list between you and
of new the person who gets
tweets/messages that it. No one else can
you get from the people see it. If your
you follow. message is
 Tweet: To post personal, use a DM.
something to Twitter/to  Reply : If you start a
write a message on message with a
Twitter. @username, then
that person gets a
notice about it in
their app or it’s listed
in their Replies on
Twitter.com.

6. FACEBOOK
Facebook is a social CRITICISM
networking service
Facebook has met with
launched in February
controversies. It has been
2004, owned and
blocked intermittently in
operated by
several countries including
Facebook, Inc. As of
the People's Republic of
September
China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pa
2012, Facebook has over
kistan, Syria (unblocked in
one billion active
Syria), and Bangladesh on
user, more than half of
different bases. For
them using Facebook on
example, it was banned
a mobile device. Users
in many countries of the
must register before using
world on the basis of
the site, after whicthey
allowed content judged
may create a personal
as anti-Islamic and
profile; add other users as
containing religious
friends, and exchange
discrimination. It has also
messages, including
been banned at many
automatic notifications
workplaces to prevent
when they update their
employees from using it
profile. Additionally, users
during work hours.
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

7. IMPACT
Media
In April 2011, Facebook
launched a new portal for
Social
marketers and creative Facebook has affected the
agencies to help them social life and activity of
develop brand promotions on
people in various ways. With
its availability on many
Facebook. The company mobile devices, Facebook
began its push by inviting a allows users to continuously
select group of British stay in touch with
advertising leaders to meet friends, relatives and other
Facebook's top executives at acquaintances wherever
an "influencers' summit" in
they are in the world, as long
as there is access to the
February 2010. Facebook has Internet. It can also unite
now been involved in people with common
campaigns for True interests and/or beliefs
Blood, American Idol, and Top through groups and other
Gear. News and media outlets pages, and has been known
such as the Washington to reunite lost family
members and friends
Post, Financial Times and ABC because of the widespread
News have used aggregated reach of its network. One
Facebook fan data to create such reunion was between
various infographics and charts John Watson and the
to accompany their articles. 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.

8. JOKES

9. Editorial Group:
Raul Gomez

10. Bibliografía
 http://www.readableblog.com
 http://en.wikipedia.org