1. Twitter is a regular source that I use on a daily basis. What appeals to me about Twitter is that when something in my area is "trending" you can view all the tweets related to that topic. When a topic is trending on twitter it means that there are numerous people talking about that certain thing. Fortunately, when dramatic events happen, this allows for news to get out very quickly. Nevertheless, when I am wanting to look up something that interests me, all you have to do is search a couple of words, possibly with a hash tag and you will have a ton of information in a second. Even though some of the information is not true all the time, I can still get a basic idea of what is happening. Also, I follow certain news accounts, like CTV and CBC, so I kind of believe that those tweets have some sort of truth in them. The company has nothing to do with my liking.
2a. John Dorsey was the creator of Twitter. Twitter was its own company in April 2007. It is owned by a larger company. For the moment Twitter is privately owned but in the next couple of weeks it could possibly be opened up to the stock market. Not able to find details about who owns the larger part of the company, the stocks and who is the overall parent company.
b. Dick Costolo is the current CEO of Twitter. Costolo was also the former COO. In 1985 he graduated with a B.S. degree in communication and computer sciences from the University of Michigan. Costolo has experience working and creating web site designs. He has done various projects. Many have been bought by Google. Costolo worked for Google for some time until he left in 2009 and joined Twitter to be the COO, in 2009 as well. At first his CEO position was only supposed to be temporary, but then the other CEO couldn't return so his position became permanent. Business insider reported him as being "one of Silicon Valley's most impressive CEOs" and TIME magazine named him as one of the 10 Most Inferential U.S. Tech CEOs.
c. With Twitter, if some commercial implications change, people will still realize that they are using Twitter as long as the little blue bird is symbolized somewhere. They can make money this way by other advertisements and commercials using this blue bird on their own ads so that the audience knows that they are on Twitter. But Twitter doesn't use ads to get money.
d. The need to make money impacts the content of the source. Twitter has become one of the most popular on line social media sites. The amount of money that goes into owning the company is potentially a lot. Before the creator John Dorsey wasn't getting much value from the site, but the content for the site would benefit his ideas and the Twitter users. Unfortunately, when larger companies buy Twitter, they'll make decisions that won't necessarily benefit Twitter users. The content will be changed so that it benefits them more financially.
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