Notes

As was indicated by Urry (2007), the mobility paradigms are actively circulating entities, including communicative and imaginative travel where there is a referential meaning added. The presence of the users on Twitter, as part of virtual travel, could be influenced by any of the circulating entities, such as movement of products or corporeal co-presence. The same conceptual society that is highly active had been visible from Twitter relations. On adapting the theoretical framework of Hillier and Hanson (1984) to explain the virtual space in Tech City, Twitter proved to be a medium for conceptual relationships. These conceptual relationships were less likely to transfer into the physical sphere and manifest into spatial relationships. In addition, the number of restrictions on start-up choice of location within the cluster and Twitter’s intricate interconnections made it difficult to distinguish a significant correspondence between activities in physical and virtual spaces. It is important to mention here that this result is only valid for the small sample that was anlysed in this paper, and might therefore be vulnerabale to the effect of outliers. In order to generalise our findings, there is a need to test our propositions on a larger case study, and perhaps compare our case to similar phenomena in different geographic locations.