What is Twitter?
Twitter is an online application that is part of blog, part of social networking site, part cell phone or IM tool which designed to let the users answer the questions ‘ what are you doing’ and ‘what are you thinking of’ by using 140 characters for each ‘tweet’. It also let the users find the responses from other tweets through online resources that they are interested in music, movies, even a common topic. Twitter is very similar with Facebook which is other social networking site which is much more popular than Twitter as they are both involving to the users’ mini updates. Besides that, the users can follow anyone to know about the latest update for the personal status of ‘what they are doing’ and also their latest news. For example, the celebrity use Twitter to increase their population as their fans can communicate and follow the latest news of the celebrity.
Twitter changes our life in the ways:
1. News and opinion.
Traditional newspaper normally update one day after the accident but through twitter, peoples sharing new information and news update on the spot, it maybe from the victims or the sides. So, the news spread faster than the newspaper compare with twitter.
2. Searching
It the information is for entertainment or news update, searching it on Twitter is more accurate compare to the search engines or news article as articles mostly filter by the big company to defend their reputation. The search engines mostly are more written by the historians but if you want the article recommended by peoples or had the highest response rates, Twitter is the best ways and application for it.
3. Advertising
Now is an internet world which people more likely use internet as the media compare to TV, radio and outdoor advertising. Mostly internet advertising is more effective comparing to the others because peoples spend more time in internet world though mobile devices, computer or any devices they could access to internet. As Twitter is a trend which have millions of people using it, so advertise through this media platform can meet the advertisement objectives.
As my opinion, Twitter got its good and bad as people can use it as a personal status updated but 90’s generation is too addicted in Twitter is not a good phenomenon too. The first thing people do every day is posting their status instead of greeting with their parent. People will have less face to face communication with their parents and in the end it will become digital’s world as people will communicate through the electronic devices.
Twitter is the platform of building relationship too. Through Twitter, users can follow the peoples they concern such as high-school friend, colleagues, relatives, parents even friends that had lost contact for a long time period. Through Twitter, they can know what they are doing recently and also find the friends they had lost contact for a long time. So, it is a good application for building relationship too. If Twitter and Facebook these kind of social networking keep assisting, there will never lose contact and people can follow their old friends as frequency as they can.
