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EXERCISES AND POINTS TO PONDER
1. Consider your own Twitter account and review its contents over the period of a
month or so. What might someone else make of the contents? Would it be possible
to mine the information to nd out more about what kind of person you are? Write a
short article on the implications of this development in technology.
2. Microblogging services are increasingly being used via smartphones. In groups, dis-
cuss the dierences between using such a service on a smartphone as opposed to
a desktop PC. Aer the discussion, review the material provided in Perreault and
Ruths (2011) and co ...