Creativity

New media is clearly causing an impact on technology. It is enabling creativity largely because there are a tremendous amount of different sites that can be used.

The New York Times article, Twitter serves up ideas from its followers explains that Twitter is not competing with any of its  competitors. Instead, it is coming up with new innovative ideas. It is easier for startup companies to engage in this creativity, and rather more difficult for older companies. Twitter was first to come up with tagging someone with the "@" sign, once they are mentioned. They also use hyperlinks so that users can click on the trend mentioned, and explore more about it.

The more innovative technology that comes out, the easier it is to get creative. Some companies just copy what others have started, but Twitter has been the first to create tags, which are now being used on Instagram and Facebook as well.