Jamal Awil

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These applications reveal the expectation that individuals will want to monitor and manage. [fact]

These tools are used widely not only by companies and brands, but also by individuals to track their @replies, re-tweets, and references to their friends, partner, band, and so forth. These applications reveal the expectation that individuals will want to monitor and manage their Twitter handle. And as we will see, users have come to use the same tactics for self-surveillance that companies use for brand management.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 259