Living in digital space: Everyday life in Twitter

Despite its simplicity, everyday life has always been difficult to explain. It has become even more differentiated with the emergence of machines and electricity as the features and the fractionations of time and space have been altered. New media tools and the corresponding digital networks have begun to take part in the center of our daily lives, thereby caused a practice of everyday life in digital space. In Twitter, a network in which users are involved through the machines, the concepts such as life, time, space, rhythm have developed. This study focuses on the constitution of everyday life in digital space. Twitter is a digital space that users make their practices everyday life in this network and involved in through the machines. To discover the practices of everyday life in this digital space, we firstly selected a sample of 10 users with social network analysis, and observed the content that produced by this sample employing digital ethnography and analyzed by sociology of everyday life. It is observed that Twitter creates its own rhythm. A kind of digital neighborhood environment is constructed Observations show in Twitter that tactics have been produced and strategies have been tried to be turned down with these tactics and acted rhythmic practices as forms of production and consumption in everyday life. People tend to follow similar others in Twitter, and accordingly content is being produced for an imaginary community. In some cases time is dependent on real time, and in some cases time is being transformed. Keywords: Twitter, Everyday Life, Digital Space, Social Networks, Digital Ethnography