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Twitter Rules vs. Community Values

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Some of these are legislated, and some of them simply come from community values. My rules are based on a combination of factors, like why I am on Twitter, my personal standard of ethics, my perception of community values, and Twitter’s TOS. If you use Twitter as a kind of AIM/MySpace 2.0, Rules have numerous origins.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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It’s hip and cool to say Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging have replaced e-mail, and “anything worth saying can be said in 140 characters,” but it isn’t true. Running a business is a complex affair requiring complex communications. MySpace Is Where the Young People Hang Out. The CEO Needs to Blog. That was three years ago!

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. The value to a brand of a social media presence, whether through a corporate blog, Facebook page or Twitter account, is hard to dispute, but equally hard to measure. And all but one of them are dead. Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.”