Comment by SoftTalker
Comment by SoftTalker 2 days ago
I think it became social media when it enabled two-way/multi-way messaging, if that wasn't there from the start. If it was originally just a feed of posts, yeah it wasn't really social media, it was just another form of blogging.
IIRC twitter was originally called a "micro-blogging" platform, and "re-tweeting" and replying to tweets came later. At that point it became social media.
Media outlets are often one-way though. I can't message news networks on TV and at best their sites may have a comment section enabled. They're still media, and if I can similar see content from my peers that seems to check the "social" box at least in my opinion.
Something like RSS doesn't work for direct messages, but it does still allow for you and I to post to our feeds. Nothing stops it from going a step further and acting much like twitter, we all post to our own site but they can be short messages and they can reference a post on someone else's site as "replying to" or similar.