Twitter: it's a medium not a platform

Beckett, Charlie (2009) Twitter: it's a medium not a platform [Online resource]

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So I am on a panel talking about Twitter, while Jemima ‘mistress of multi-skilling’ Kiss is Tweeting to the few enterprising students who are Tweeting while another is broadcasting it on Qik. Then Anthony Thornton from IPCmedia says “Twitter is a not a platform, it’s the medium for short-term communication”. And he’s right.

Item Type	Online resource
Copyright holders	© 2009 The Author(s)
Departments	Media and Communications
Date Deposited	22 May 2017 07:22
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/77950