Twittamentary: Crowdsourcing a project

• Main Author: NETZLEY, Michael A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Social media; crowdsourcing; Singapore; film; documentary; Twitter; Asian Studies; Communication Technology and New Media; Film and Media Studies; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cases_coll_all/8; https://cmp.smu.edu.sg/case/3271
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Tan Siok Siok, a Singaporean filmmaker living in Beijing, decided to make a documentary about Twitter using Twitter to source for the film’s content. Twitter, sometimes called a microblog, is essentially a short messaging service over the Internet. Rather than make this film using classic and highly...