A Micro-Ethnographic of Twitter Usage by Marcos Figueira About fifty years ago, Andy Warhol anticipated that everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. The willingness for fame is intrinsically related to vanity itself. In the realm of the digital age, the barriers today for vanity (self) publishing, thanks to the advance of digital technologies, notably the internet, are incredibly low. Blogs, personal web pages and the social networking spaces (MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter etcetera), could be viewed as an enormous vanity arena, ...