The Copenhagen Project

Twitter is a micro blogging service. If we look at an individual user page and regard the user as the “owner” of it’s own micro blog, our analysis looks like this:

Do we regard Twitter as a tool or do we regard it as a media?

If we look at it from a user perspective, Twitter is a tool that enables users to run their own micro blog. In this regard Twitter in itself is just a tool (Like  WordPress and any other CMS), while the final result of using the tool - each individual micro blog - is a media.

This is also true at other services, e.g. del.icio.us, which is first of all a tool that enables users to run their own link media. But the people behind del.icio.us has decided to also run their own media - the front page of del.icio.us (see post). The front page media and the individual user pages (here’s mine) are two different types of medias, while the whole service is a tool - a CMS for links.