The networked audience is distinct from the networked public, which danah boyd defines as the social space created by technologies like social network sites and the imagined community that thrives in this space. While it is possible to describe a single site like Twitter as a networked public (although I would not do so), I think the term networked audience is more appropriate for lifestreaming. “Networked public” implies a set of people communicating through a single technology (MySpace, Usenet, and so on), while the networked audience moves across sites. Moreover, the concept of audience as explained earlier implies a specific set of people interested enough to view digital content rather than an amorphous mass of potential readers.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 551