Weekly Analysis 4-1

Weekly Analysis
Twitter
This week I have decided to write about twitter. While I am not on twitter, and I am new to the whole blogging thing, thanks to this class, I hear it is all the rage. From my understanding, Twitter is a blogging site where you can basically keep people informed on what is going on in your life. This sounds similar to face book and MySpace so why all the hype?
Twitter is a site not unlike face book and MySpace that allows people to stay connected. With twitter you have your network of people called followers, and then you have people that you follow as well. However, over the last year, even the inventors of twitter have been surprised by what people have been able to use twitter for. It was originally designed as a place for a quick update your life, and that’s it, now it has turned into a place to update people about your life, a search engine, and a place to list links to other pages that are bigger then twitter allows. So pretty much you can do anything on twitter. According to Johnson (2009), he attended a conference that had twitter running while they were discussing education. By the end of the day there were many people outside of the conference that were twitting about it, and the tweets continued for several weeks after the conference. It sounds to me like twitter is taking the world by storm, but in a good way.
So if you are able to jump into a conversation that’s happening at a conference in another state, why go to the conference at all? Well, while following tweets and sending tweets is a great way to stay informed, it won’t be the same as being at the conference. However, this is a great way to get involved in many things that under normal circumstances you may not. It also gives you access to many celebrities lives because they are all on twitter and tweet all the time. Ashton Kutcher is the most notorious celebrity on twitter, and really started this whole new rage.
From what I have read about twitter it sounds like it is a great asset to have. So I signed up on twitter. It will take me a while to get the hang of it but I think I will do okay, now I just have to find some people to follow, and I hope people will start to follow me. The really great thing is I can tweet from my phone, and I can see what other are tweeting about too.


Reference
Johnson, S., (2009, June 5). How twitter will change the way we live. Time. Retrieved September 11, 2009 from http://time.com/time/business/article/0,8599/1902604,00.html

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