Last week I tweeted : "I had a bizarre morning, lost keys and forgot my power adapter at the coffee shop, one of the laundry dryer machines did work, had to redo it ," a few minutes later, I got this tweet from a user saying : " We can get you a new set of keys!" There was also another company who tweeted me saying that they sold the best key leashes. These companies advertise their products through twitter, watching for key words and checking who tweets what, isn't that amazing? Compare these tweets with the tweets that are being sent out from the Middle East, telling of how many people died in anti-government protests while government media denies them. It's quite ironic that on the other side of the world, people use twitter for their liberation from oppressive regimes while on this side of the world, people use twitter to advertise their products. For one part of the world, twitter has become a powerful source of communication, spreading out their ang...
sporadic thoughts and reflections of an anthropology phd student