Media And Its New Found Glory

There are a few new forms of media publishing but these few are the most significant.

Twitter

One of them is twitter. Twitter was found in March 2006 by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone (Work, Jerry. n.d). Twitter has grown into much popularity ever since it has been introduced. It just like an SMS but on the internet. It enables someone to post of the most recent progress of someones life. Tweeter is also known as a micro blog as there is only a certain number of words that can be posted up at one time. So there must be a system to ensure the number of words do not exceed.

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Youtube

Youtube is one of the biggest phenomenon with millions of viewers going trough the website at the same time. Founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005 where they first registered Youtubet up videos. The fathers of Youtube managed to turn such a simple idea into a billion dollar company (Robert, 2007). Their first video was posted up on Youtube in April 23rd 2005. Now, Youtube has become a place for the media to post up their videos and such. News channels now have Youtube accounts where they are able to channel their news through the usage of Youtube and its ability to post videos as well as its well known popularity.

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Facebook

Facebook is one of the largest social network on the net alongside Myspace (Yadav, S. 2007). Facebook launched their website in 2004 and now has become the talk of the town. It has become a place for applications to gather in as well as advertisements to flood in. Through the posting of advertisements, this is one way Facebook gets money. It was originally know as thefacebook which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg during his study in Harvard. He eventually dropped out of Harvard with a few of his friends to continue Facebook full time. Now, there are news channels that have their own facebook pages as well. The local media industry advertises this on the television as well as other media sources. This is a way media uses its new found partners to advertise its news and company.

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References

Robert, 2007, The History of Youtube, viewed on 19th April 2010 from link http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=108

Lidsky, D. 2010, The Brief But Impactful History of Youtube, viewed on 19th April 2010 from link http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/142/it-had-to-be-you.html

Malik, O. 2009, A Brief History of Twitter, viewed on 19th April 2010 from link http://gigaom.com/2009/02/01/a-brief-history-of-twitter/

Work, J. n.d, The History of Twitter and What It Means to Tweet, viewed on 19th April 2010 from link
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-History-of-Twitter-and-What-it-Means-to-Tweet&id=2429381

Yadav, S. 2007, Facebook - The Complete Biography, viewed on 19th April 2010 from link
http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/