microblogs

"Studies the . . . social networking service [Twitter] and its founders, examining how a side project created by its four founders evolved into a . . . social network that influences entertainment, politics, and activism"--Provided by publisher.

This book offers young people ways to amplify their voices and build community via this dynamic tool, while staying focused and safe.

Having achieved fame and thousands of followers with her Tumblr expose of her brilliant-yet-clueless parents, a seventeen-year-old African American honors student tries to keep secret that her microblog is ghostwritten by a forty-one-year-old white man.

Details the life and accomplishments of Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, the Internet communication staple.

Explains what Twitter and microblogging are and how to create your own Twitter account, and includes the origins of blogging and microblogging, advice on what to write and how to build an audience, and provides rules and etiquette.

Provides overviews of the lives and careers of Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey, founders of the online social networking and microblogging service Twitter.