It’s said that a picture’s worth 1,000 words — considerably more than the 140 characters allowed in a tweet. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Twitter is starting to look more like Instagram, with more users including photos in their tweets.
Alexander Howard, who has written extensively about social media and collaborative technology, joins Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson to discuss the increasing similarities between the two social networks.
Guest
- Alexander Howard, fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, columnist at TechRepublic, founder of the blog E Pluribus Unum and contributor at TechPresident. He tweets @digiphile.
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