What is Twitter?
On Mashable.com, I learned that 69 percent of adults don’t know enough about Twitter “to have an opinion about it.” Of those that do have an opinion of Twitter, 12 percent think it’s poised for exponential growth, another 12 percent think it’s something that will stay relegated to “young people and the media,” while 8 percent think it’s just a passing fad. Further research taught me that Twitter is often thought of as a Micro-blogging which is a quick update usually containing a very limited number of characters. Micro-blogging is what you do when you update your status on Facebook. Instead of some long, drawn out paragraph about your day and how you’re feeling, sometimes you just want to say, “Not in a good mood…” or “Out with a friend..txt/call the cell.” Not only that, but Twitter is social messaging (networking). With the ability to follow people and have followers, and the ability to have interact with Twitter on your cell phone, Twitter has become the perfect social messaging tool. While researching, I stumbled upon some interesting facts, “Earlier this year, actor Ashton Kutcher challenged and won a race against CNN to reach 1 million followers.” Also this year, a woman who follows Kutcher’s wife, Demi Moore, posted her intention to commit suicide on Moore’s Twitter feed. Alerted by Moore and other Twitter users, police were able to find the woman and get her treatment. In my opinion, you shouldn’t consider Twitter as some dumb experiment. According to Sue Waters, it is an incredibly powerful tool for your personal learning and connecting with others. Concluding, Twitter is micro-blogging. It is social messaging. It is even an event coordinator, a business tool, a news reporting service and a marketing utility. All you need to Twitter is an internet connection or a mobile phone.
http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialnetworking/a/what-is-twitter.htm
http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/13920
http://www.qctimes.com/article_9e9f73e8-7f10-11de-97c9-001cc4c002e0.html
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