Twitter users generate over 200 million daily tweets. 2,200 new tweets every second.
YouTube users upload two days of video every minute. They receive up to 3 billion views per day.
Just by it’s very nature, social media is fast-moving. Viral content spreads rapidly but is tempered by the fickle, ADHD readers that consume it: what is hot now might not be hot in a week/day/hour. We get busy. We get bored. We lose interest. Well, the same is true for the platforms themselves. Social media platforms are also memes. Continue reading
Part of what makes the combination of globalization and social networking so amazing is that it has the ability to connect previously unconnected groups of people. What was already socially organic in the real world, ie. a person meets someone and becomes involved with the groups and communities the person belongs to, and vice versa, … Continue reading
Welcome to the Attention Age. The Information Overload Age. The age of human history in which information has become so abundant and readily available that attention has become the greatest commodity. Continue reading
