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.
Helo, Zhi Huey.
ReplyDeleteThanks for introduce Twitter.
I do have my Twitter account, but I don't log in. I sign up for this, it's just because I following the trend. Since everyone is using, can I out of the trend. To be honest, I'm not so familiar with it.
To me,the only thing good about Twitter is, it can train me to write a statement, straight to the point with the limit of words.
If not I decided to further my study, I won't know what is the benefit of Twitter.
Hence, Twitter do change the way I life in certain part.
Hey there Zhi Huey, I'm liking how you position Twitter in your eyes. I feel that your statement on Twitter being able to build relationships is true. In some sense, we would stumble upon random updates of a long lost friend or relative and with that status, we can actually gage with them and get to know what's up in their lives lately. Of course, again with the old debate, Twitter do actually help those who converse better online. They would feel less pressured and more likely to communicate through the 140 characters. But of course, again bringing back to the old debate, excessive of online communication really isn't all that good.
ReplyDeleteTo the point of 'Searching', I don't quite agree that Twitter is the most accurate platform to gather correct news. To a certain extend, some Twitterzens might publish accurate updates but not all. Some Twitterzens are just merely posting because a particular issue is the current trend. But in fact they do not know the real story.
Think of it this way, Twitter can be very much influential in some ways. But with that said, it would be a potential tool to hype up wrong kind of information. Especially gossips, if you may. It might be a good tool, but at the same time it can be deadline if messed wrongly with. Word of mouth is indeed dangerous. With the help of Cyber tools, it would only be worse.
What do you think? Thanks for your point of view, enjoyed it!
Twitter is our mini blog/Status/update. Everything is in the Twitter. Well, that's the advantage of the Twitter because it's so short and concise and it really helps the advertisers to target their audience easily. In the relationship bonding, I can said that which is true because everyone is on cyberspace now. However, this wouldn't apply to everyone. For the older generation, Internet is just a stranger to them. It would eventually make the distance more far away, don't you think so?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for the point! Appreciate it! Nice post!