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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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The Year the Millennial Internet Died

The Year the Millennial Internet Died | Communications Major | Scoop.it

From Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed. There is no happy ending to this story.

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Monica Lewinsky Joins Twitter

Monica Lewinsky Joins Twitter | Communications Major | Scoop.it

The former White House intern of blue dress fame kicked off her tweets with the simple message "#HereWeGo."

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How to Become Internet Famous for $68

How to Become Internet Famous for $68 | Communications Major | Scoop.it

Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of. His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome. Next to his name is one of social media’s most prized possessions, Twitter’s blue “verified account” checkmark. Beneath it are numbers to make many in the online world jealous: Santiago Swallow has tens of thousands of followers. The tweets Swallow sends them are cryptic nuggets of wisdom that unroll like scrolls from digital fortune cookies: “Before you lose weight, find hope,” says one. Another: “To write is to live endlessly.”


And, of course, he isn't real. But rather the figment of one very creative writer's imagination - and $68, which is all it took to get Santiago Swallow up and running.

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Singer Pink Flawlessly Shuts Down Internet Criticism About Her Weight

Singer Pink Flawlessly Shuts Down Internet Criticism About Her Weight | Communications Major | Scoop.it

P!nk responded to Internet criticism on Twitter about her weight gain, saying her body is having "some much deserved time off. And, then she signed off as "Cheesecake". 

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The Fall of Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter'

The Fall of Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter' | Communications Major | Scoop.it

The United States discreetly supported the creation of a website and SMS service that was, basically, a Cuban version of Twitter, the Associated Press reported Thursday. ZunZuneo, as it was called, permitted Cubans to broadcast short text messages to each other. At its peak, ZunZuneo had 40,000 users.

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Top 2012 Searches Include Whitney Houston, Hurricane Sandy

Top 2012 Searches Include Whitney Houston, Hurricane Sandy | Communications Major | Scoop.it
LOS ANGELES — The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and...
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