Is Twitter a True Social “Network”?
I heard an interesting piece on Marketplace Radio on NPR this week – Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal interviewed Steven Dubner, author of the Freakonomics concept. During the broadcast, they proposed that Twitter is not a social network. Essentially, Kai was ribbing Steven for their lack of reciprocity: specifically, @freakonomics has nearly 275,000 followers and, at … Read more