1. Mini-Ethnography
Sam Tobin

2. Twitter in plain English video

3. History of twitter
• Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack
Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone.
• Wanted a way to send short messages.
• On March 21st, Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet
ever, “just setting up my twttr.”

4. Twitter Today
• Nearly 200 million users world wide
• 460,000 new twitter accounts opened daily
• 160 million tweets sent per day

5. What got you into the “twitter-sphere”?

6. Writing a tweet

7. What do you use twitter for?
• Expressing your feelings?
• Talking to friends?
• News updates?
• Catching up with long lost friends?
• Communicating for school?

8. Do you know what your thinking?
• What makes you tweet?
• What are you thinking about when you tweet?
• What makes you choose a certain “hashtag”?
• How do you tweet?