Creativity

New Media continues to grow in popularity over the years. It is a way for people to express themselves through videos, pictures or through writing. It is a way for these people to be creative without really having too many boundaries. A lot of these new media sites use fans to help build new things for their sites; to help improve it in a way that will attract these people. The article "Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers" by Clare Cain Miller talks about and gives us a few examples of this method. For example Flikr found out that sharing photos was becoming a popular thing, so that's how the site came about. They actually leave there innovations up to their users. It is a good way to get an idea of what they like to make the site more attractive. As the article states, Twitter is one of the top sites that uses customer innovation. Users of Twitter are the reason why tweets have that name. They started calling them that and eventually Twitter adopted the term. The # was also another thing brought about by a user of Twitter. These are ways in which people were just being creative and it caught on with other users and Twitter itself. A site like this lets you come up with new ideas for Twitter. Being creative on websites is very easy. I believe these type of sites are for users to be creative and express themselves.