Finally a guide to study Twitter!

I really appreciated Bruns & Stieglitz's "how to" guide in studying Twitter. I often struggle to think of Twitter as a text or a space I want to study, b/c I'm not sure where to begin my research questions. However, this piece was exactly what I needed! Ok now for more scholarly notes.

1.) It was really interesting to see how few people within the Pew study were on Twitter, and even a smaller percentage were active on Twitter. Additionally I found it very interesting that, "tweets from news media make up a significant portion of a user's feed." I'm curious to know if this deluge of content in the form of story promotion, retweeting stories, up cycling old content from news organizations devalues their social currency with audiences. In a democratized space such as Twitter at what point do audiences see the news as noise?

2.) Finally, if you haven't all read the New York Time's 12 page memo, Our Path Forward, I suggest you take a look. They've hit 1 million paying digital subscribers and are sharing their plan forward. This line stuck out to me and I believe it is very relevant to our class: "Young readers were the first to shift to mobile and the first to embrace social platforms, and they have become reliable first indicators of major trends that ultimately affect our entire audience."