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Smartphones arose from the marriage of the existing mobile phone technology and PDA technology. A smartphone is essentially a touch-based computer on a phone, which comes with its own keyboard, operating system, Internet access, and third party applications. It provides many other features such as a camera, maps, calendar, alarm clock, and games. Today, the smartphone is ubiquitous.
We discuss the impact of Facebook and Twitter in social networking. Facebook is the leading social media site in the world, and it has become a way for young people to discuss their hopes and aspirations as well as a tool for social protest and revolution. Twitter has become a popular tool in political communication, and it is also an effective way for businesses to advertise its brand to its target audience.
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The Tao of Twitter. Changing your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time. Second Edition. Mark W. Schaefer. McGraw-Hill. 2014.
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O’Regan, G. (2021). The Smartphone and Social Media. In: A Brief History of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66599-9_19
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