This document discusses why Twitter matters and its potential uses. It argues that Twitter allows for socially aggregated real-time discussions through hashtags and retweets, creating emergent dynamics around issues and content. It suggests Twitter, through its simple microblogging structure, may be the "stemcell" of web 3.0 by facilitating universal discovery and knowledge sharing through user-generated content and conversations.

1. Why twitter
#matters
and how
Willi Schroll – strategiclabs.de
@wschroll
Berlin • May 23/24 2009
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3. my context
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4. @wschroll
strategiclabs.de
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5. Complex unfolding
Some building blocks for emer-
ging „moss“ apps and services
local local
communities
mobile space
knowledge
actual location future location route planning
local events local offers local advertising positioning tech
social lifestream actual environment actual phys. state sensor/recog. tech
social mapping geo tagging semantic tech Social LBS
recommendation gaming sharing bandwidth
reviewing/voting dating socializing soc. augm. reality
online
adhoc/tmp
communities
social space
communities
Slide taken from my presentation of CommunityCamp Berlin 2008 – see www.slideshare.com/willi
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7. 140
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8. socially
aggregated
realtime
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users
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makes us a
RT network
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12. RT?
1) RT = realtime
2) RT = retweet
->
:) emergent tweet
dynamics
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13. a retweet is the
atom of viral
dynamics
(minimalism is success factor in
abundant environments)
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15. a hashtag is the
atom of issue
dynamics
(functional as a minimalistic
semantic marker, ready for
processing by man & machine!)
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17. chemistry
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18. small worlds
huge jumps
super dynamics
universal discovery
engine!
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19. Is a simple
microblogging
network like twitter
the
stemcell of
web 3.0?
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20. What if we use the
rt user generated
content of tweets?
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21. What if we use the
rt user generated
knowledge of tweets?
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23. You are invited to help me
think about a service
combining the features of
twitter with some other
elements
go: twick.me
tweet: @wschroll
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