If you click on the blurry word cloud above it will take you to a sharper version. Click then gaze to get an idea of the buzz words in social media.
Unsurprisingly, the first words to leap out – even on this inadequate image – are “social” and “media”. Following swiftly on these blue and green curlicues are “people” and “twitter”. Again, this is no shocker. As its home page proudly proclaims: “Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.” And people, well, we might be operating from behind screens but we’re still there. It’s hardly going to be octopi driving this new frontier of human communication.
The words that make me stop and think are some of the smaller ones like: “business” and “brand”. These are words we’ve heard a lot over the last few days at the Social Media Forum. I feel a philosophical post brewing…
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