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Is Twitter Becoming The New Instagram?

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It's said that a picture's worth 1,000 words — considerably more than the 140 characters allowed in a tweet. So perhaps it's no surprise that Twitter is starting to look more like Instagram, with more users including photos in their tweets.

Alexander Howard, who has written extensively about social media and collaborative technology, joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to discuss the increasing similarities between the two social networks.

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This segment aired on April 10, 2014.

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