Looking for Tweets on how social media has changed

I'm a grad. senior & landed my dream job months be4 graduation, started blogging on a major site... all from relationships I developed in SM

Steve,
I just wrote a case study on brands on twitter from 10DowningStreet to Zappos: http://tinyurl.com/5d3z5k.

Before social media you knew best, and kept it close. After; you want the worlds opinion - in return all we want is your life!

Manager of Business Development,
The Daily Norwegian Financial Newspaper - www.dn.no

I've never got a consulting project that didn't originate from my blog.

Social gives marketing a hippy ethos. Away from message discipline and command-and-control toward community, participation, and free media.

Social media breaks down communication barriers between all stakeholders, while exposing companies for who they really are.

A way to mine customer comments, criticisms and complaints. a way to do more of what is working and fix what is broken.

Social media has made us all "friends"; but does it devolve into a tyranny of the majority?

From @dearsarah

Social media has democratized fame. More people have access to their 15 minutes, but in turn those 15 minutes are now even more fleeting.

SM is creating deep connections between companies & customers, faster, cheaper and better than ever before. Twitter is biggest change agent!

It is forcing brands to think about the person, not the target (that isn't to say that brands are actually doing it... yet)

Social networking sites help people connect. Nowhere is that more true than at www.genebase.com, where you can take a DNA test and connect your family with others with a similar genetic blueprint.

Social media has increased the opportunities people have to connect with others online, but at the expense of actual in-person contact.

Beyond blogs, SM allows learning, listening, meeting, and enjoying a global view of an endless flow of creative thought. That's a sea change.

Companies can now co-create with clients directly and repeatedly without an intermediary. This is the biggest change agent of our time.

SM has made people excited about the potential again – like they were in the late 90s when the general public discovered the Internet.

Picapp.com lets bloggers access breaking news photos and images that make their sites more attractive, engaging.

Social media trashed marketing. Customers have the power now - to elevate or bring a company down. It's time to be all ears or lose out.

Social Media has given brands another potential opportunityto build relationships, only to blow it by running more campaigns.

SM puts pressure on business ethics. It's consumer protection, quality control, etc. People will tell.

Webmasters can now distribute content virally and create connected communities using social distribution platforms, such as Flux.com.

Social media has enabled the success of polling site BuzzDash.com, where popular opinion can be measured on almost any topic.

@stevebaker - social media changed into your worst nightmare - it took a toy and turned into an animal that now eats your phone too

my work colleagues and clients now know more about me personally than ever before.

Businesses are forced to realize the importance of SM, as they now seek reviews, feedback and approval from influential blogs within thier categories

People are more overloaded by information than ever before. (Thus the importance of http://bitliteracy.com )

Twitter: Disintermediates the whole media model. Doesn't replace; alternative for high relevance. Adds missing element of 'exchange'.

From RWW do your business presentation as a Twitpitch for @stoweboyd, he won't have time to meet you in person http://tinyurl.com/3rewqq

Messaging services like IM let people connect in ways they never could before. The Poynt local search service lets people find local businesses and restaurants or even where their favorite movie is playing all without leaving AIM or WLM.