Note: this is the second piece in a three-part series on social media. Part one can be found here and part three here.
Analyzing Twitter is akin to writing a fantasy novel. In both cases, the author must invent a world based on some outline of common experience. That world will be filled with heroes, villains, imaginary landscapes, and mythical creatures. Conflict will be epic. Everything becomes allegory.
In the end, analyzing Twitter is the more banal undertaking. There’s a limit to the amount of creativity we can apply to the topic. Our understanding of social media is deeply subjective. The transactions and transgressions highlight our digital individualism. In lots of ways, though, Twitter lends itself to a pack mentality.
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