The article "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers" by Claire Cain Miller may be the most interesting article I've read for this class. Its so interesting how users developed and created most of the way Twitter works today. A guy named Chris Messina was actually the one to introduce the hashtag symbol, #, onto Twitter. This is used so much to relate to Twitter now its not even funny. People are even using it outside of Twitter, on Facebook for example. The hashtag helps to mark a conversation about a certain topic, and Twitter linked the hashtags so you can easily click them to follow the topic. Its genius.
There are a few other user developments that creatively enhance Twitter. These are Lists and Retweets. Lists help see who to follow easier and retweets helps you to send someone elses tweet through your Twitter. They are both convenient shortcuts. Many people think that producers and such create new ways to develop their product. In Twitter's case, users give feedback to help create new ideas and shortcuts, which I believe is an effective way of creating a good product.
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