when the Twitter 2006 appeared, no one could predict its spread. Eight years later, he has conquered the world, as people from all over the world fit everyday within the 140 characters of their online "tweets" - reviews, thoughts and news - to a global online "square" where everyone can reach out to anyone whether it will answer, of course, is another story).
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The Twitter boom in Greece started relatively recently. Beyond its "conventional" use, similar to that observed in other countries, the Greek temperament did not take long to give its own "color" to the whole affair, forming a particular community of enthusiastic users with distinct features and terminologies that, all those who use social networks have heard from time to time: "Fool", "Anfolo", "Deep Twitter", "Minus" and others.
The "idiots" mostly use smartphones and tablets to engage in "sports", as the constant "nailing" of desktop systems for online activity seems to be a feature of a past era - of a time when social media they were a newcomer rather than a daily reality. The main feature and concern of the Greek community of the "toiterades" is humor: from comments on the news, to the "hunt" of a smart quote, which will fit into 140 characters. Also, many appear to "snap" the so-called "king" of social networks, Facebook, as they think Twitter is more "scrutinized".
"Few withstand such unfiltered contact with the 'ordinary people'"
"When I did Twitter I did not have Facebook. I wanted a medium a bit more "sung". Do not dominate the image, but verbal communication. In the process I liked how targeted it was. Whatever was written was referring to now. In addition, you did not have to deal with already existing friends that you may have taken off your youth years and no longer have any common points. You could make your choice again, "says the user @vsinertia. He considers one of the best aspects of Twitter to be the ability to communicate directly with people that would not be possible otherwise. "You directly and quickly address journalists/politicians and generally prominent people. Of course, the basic condition is that they also know how to use it and have understood the meaning. From what I've seen, however, few can stand such unfiltered contact with the "ordinary people", he notes.
At the same level, his view is also moving @TzortzAl: "Few" famous "managed to manage how Twitter works and get criticism. Those who thought Twitter would be deposited have already changed their minds. "
Ο @Nouarzan he came in because of his brother, but then: "I liked being like The Voice of social media. I like the idea of following people for what they say, not because they have a nice profile picture or why you know them from school. " As far as contacts with public figures are concerned, he has spoken to two or three well-known people, and conversations are moving in a humorous context, "because they think I'm funny." However, he refuses to reveal names, "unless we have any television edge, even Greece, so I will reveal them with little pressure."
For his part, @iteaflowers has not entered the process. "It's out of my character, and I do not think it makes sense because I imagine a" famous "will accept many such messages. But there is a writer I respect and I like to send this first dm, telling me that he laughs at what I write, and that gave me great joy. "
Η @fdelafraga παραμένει «incharacter»: «Δεν το συνηθίζω, αλλά επειδή το ψέμα δεν το θέλω, έχω συνομιλήσει με τον Robert Downey Jr. Δεν «έπιανε» το κινητό του».
Correspondingly, the @isminouta (50.609 tweets, 9.502 followers): "I've talked to the Capri. He did not answer. Perhaps he was in a spin. So as much as I tried, you do not call it conversation. Ah, and Sakis Rouvas, one of the same. "
The Twitter as a means of information
One of the reasons that Twitter "caught on" was its immediacy, which after all highlighted it as a main "pillar" of information and providing information about events that shook the world's current affairs, from the uprisings of the "Arab Spring" to the riots in London in 2011, the double bombing at the Boston Marathon in April 2013, the protests in Istanbul in 2013, etc. -while, in several cases, it was used, along with other social media, to organize and coordinate demonstrations and mobilizations. Twitter provides a constant 'stream' of information where anyone can upload material, which is immediate available στην διεθνή κοινότητα του Διαδικτύου –συχνά παρέχοντας την πληροφορία πολύ πριν τα «συμβατικά» ΜΜΕ αντιληφθούν καν τι συμβαίνει, καθώς οι ίδιες οι «πηγές» μπορούν να έχουν «βήμα» και λόγο, χωρίς να περνούν μέσα από τα παραδοσιακά channela of information. Many speak of the "dethroning" of the media and the rise of an unbound "citizen journalism".
This is not the case for @iteaflowers, who is wary of the credibility of the Twitter feed as a media outlet: “I'd rather cross something first. In the pursuit of retweets I have seen things happen and wonders, that's why I think that at this stage there is no maturity to threaten the conventional media".
However, the @XesimoPikro is blatant towards the media, as "they do not need Twitter, they look good on their own. Over time, some accounts have proven their credibility, but you still need to have judgment. There is always the interest and the margin of error. "
@Isminouta keeps it more "useful": "Journalist does not tell me, but I will tell at which metro station he has an auditor or who has an alcotest. Oh, and who's a trailer listening to Traga? " Regarding the reliability of the Twitter feed, he acknowledges that "we have often been informed of events from the timeline and not from the media. How can you be informed of something that does not exist as it should? "
@Nouarzan avoids dealing with Twitter's informative dimension as he sees interesting things that others raise but "humbly tries to stay on the road of immaturity and stupidity." However, it feels the Twitter feed is certainly more reliable than the "conventional" media: "Anyone who publishes news on Twitter knows he should filter it because his species is much more vulnerable to open criticism, which means that if he is not a fool should be much more careful. I also believe that not so many interests are served. I vote Twitter ".
@fdelafraga reports facts, but with the aim not of informing, but of cauterizing, "if we accept that I have this ability". "I just read and listen. I feel safe enough with what I see to draw my own conclusions," he declares, adding that "conventional media will always find the power to terrorize, and terrorism is threatened only by its extinction. We are far from that."
For @TzortzAl, Twitter is definitely on the right track, as it "will deliver any event faster, faster than TV news, usually in a more objective way." He has assisted in this function, on some routes, in which he was able to describe what was happening through his account. However, she points out that she maintains a lighter writing style. "They don't follow me to keep me informed." At the same time, he stresses the need for filtering: "Accounts are managed by people with their own political beliefs or general opinions ... I don't think Twitter is so socially penetrated to threaten conventional media. But it's definitely not indifferent. "
"Deep Twitter"And elitism in online behavior
"What is Deep Twitter"? Although the temptation to give the case an air "Matrix» («do you want to know what it is?», που ρωτούσε ο Λόρενς Φίσμπερν – Μορφέας στην πρώτη ταινία της τριλογίας) είναι μεγάλος, οι «τουϊτεράδες» με προσγειώνουν, καθώς αντιμετωπίζουν τον όρο αρνητικά, εφόσον usesto suggest a form of 'elitism' in behaviour.
According to @iteaflowers, this is a term that is "ironic and ridiculous" by some, and refers to the first Greek accounts, which laid the foundations of Greek Twitter. "Well or badly some people first discovered the medium and it does not change. The term I accept it only as a joke, "he adds - like @TzortzAl, who accepts the term mainly as a joke, as a form of categorizing accounts.
@Fdelafraga does not understand him, so he does not accept him: "In an attempt to understand it, I realized that I must become the cause, and that is not in my immediate plans," he says. @Nouarzan is (over) analytical, in point of ... dictionary. As he explains, this is an ironic characterization of Twitter users who do not follow many people and are not responding to mention because of their great idea for themselves. «I do not accept it though I understand why it exists. Personally, Twitter has never been a means of communication but a means of expression. Communication means telling something, someone to listen to you and to show you that he has listened to you and (if necessary) to answer. On Twitter, this would mean not only answering every time they talk to us, but also talking to each other whenever we write a tweet - something that obviously does not happen. And because it's really ugly not to get a response when you say or ask something, in the case of Twitter I would advise that users do not necessarily expect a response, "he notes.
For @vsinertia, the term exists, "whether we accept it or not. They usually use it to describe the user who while having many followers, he does not follow many. It's sparing in its interactions with unknown users, and much more if they do not have many followers. So I would say that it is a combination of ratio followers / follow, antiquity and interactivity with other users, and this behavior is from the beginning - we did not reach 10.000 / 10.000 and we made 9.500 unfollow. These are deeply illegal. "
@Isminouta is humorously stingy: "Rumors want deep Twitter to meet specific dates from 00.18-03.15 in hidden galleries and slaughter" eggs "(typically new users who have not pictured the account) at his altar fanfar. I do not belong to deep Twitter, I do not think there is a deep Twitter, I just think we all have the right not to even answer our mother when we get a phone call. Let go, I can not kill, I can not blood. "
