Microblogging Platform

Let's explore Twitter's database logic together from Lev Manovich's POV.

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This platform is a micro blogging site where users can share their opinions, ideas and information with a 280 character limit.

This platform has features like retweet, hashtags and a personalized feed shaped by an algorithm.

These features change narratives based on data.

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This is the perfect platform to spread information in real-time without implications, and it has the ability to connect certain narratives based on #Hashtags.

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"The logic of new media technology reflects this new social logic" - Lev Manovich

Personalized feeds with custom content, expands the idea that anyone can construct their own lifestyle and "select" their ideology from a large number of choices.

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"The information about the user can be used by a computer program to automatically customize the media composition as well as to create the elements themselves." - Lev Manovich

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My feed is completely different from yours because it's driven by a database which has an algorithm that pushes out specific content and information based on my interactions here.

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Like Manovich said "Database comes to function as a cultural form of its own."

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#Hashtags are part of the narrative formation, they participate in pushing out #TrendingTopics, which are driven by databases based on your interactions.

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It also furthers cultural interferences that ultimately connects users to different conversations in real time.

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These interactions range from followers, likes, content being searched, certain #Hashtags being used etc.
Everything you do is data that is being used to create a personalized feed. This creates different exposure to the world in the digital realm.

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This microblogging platform features that amplify the experience. Retweets and quote tweets expand the interaction between users. This creates cultural interference that connects different users based on the database of information that is being consumed.

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"The information about the user can be used by a computer program to automatically customize the media composition as well as to create the elements themselves" - Lev Manovich

Twitter uses an algorithm to push out personalized content based on your interactions on the platform.

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"A new media object can be defined as one or more interfaces to a multimedia database." - Lev Manovich

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Imagine only getting your information from a platform that uses databases and narratives to control the way it's organized, accessed and represented. 🤔🤔🤔

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Twitter Wonderland: where databases and narratives affect representation of information in the digital realm ✨🌠🌟

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"Mass media and data processing are the complimentary technologies of a modern mass society; they appear together and develop side by side, making this society possible." - Lev Manovich