6/8/2023 0 Comments Ghost map book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The convention of replying to another user with the symbol was spontaneously invented by the Twitter user base. In Twitter's case, the users have been redesigning the tool itself. This is not just a case of cultural exaptation: people finding a new use for a tool designed to do something else. Now it is being used to organize and share news about the Iranian political protests, to provide customer support for large corporations, to share interesting news items, and a thousand other applications that did not occur to the founders when they dreamed up the service in 2006. “When it first emerged, Twitter was widely derided as a frivolous distraction that was mostly good for telling your friends what you had for breakfast. ![]()
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