TOW week 5: What’s the deal with Twitter?
One Week of Twitter (complete your One Week of Twitter assignment during Week Four, then write about it during Week Five).
I first started using Twitter last year for a class I had previously. This is me! I wasn’t impressed with Twitter because NONE of my personal friends or any of my family had one (and still don’t). I used to never check my account. It took me a while to think of who to be friends with and twitter was pretty uninteresting to me until I found out that a lot of my favorite surfers, music festivals, and TV shows had accounts. One of my favorite surfers posted a link to a contest that was offered ONLY to Twitter users. His sponsors were giving away free surfboards to the fans with pictures of their boards and their best surf stories. When keeping up with my favorite surfers, it’s easier to look at my Twitter homepage and see updates of locations, surf competitions, and their results. The TV show Tosh.O on Comedy Central uses Twitter comments as a main part of the show.
This is gonna sound typical, but Twitter is important because it keeps people connected. Major news stations receive video, opinions, and updates from viewers. News stations can get updates in isolated areas quicker from everyday citizens like you and me. Twitter is here to stay. Now that I’m following almost 50 people and have figured out the site more, I check it more often. I’m not the biggest fan of updating account more than 3 times a day because I’m just so busy doing other things like school, work, and chillin’ with my friends. It probably also, has something to do with the fact that I don’t have a super crazy phone with applications and a touch screen… YET.
Hi Nikki — I’m so glad that you found value in Twitter the second time around.
Barbara
I have to agree with ya….I don’t get it either. I didn’t have the same problem of not having friends or family with accounts, but even though they had them I just have trouble seeing the point. I see like you said that news stations and things like that use them to stay updated on topics, but why do individual people have accounts? I actually created mine a few semesters ago to find out what was going on with the election in Iran when people were posting about the political corruption and all that was taking place with the election. I don’t see the plus of it being used as a social networking site. I feel like it is just a glorified facebook status update constantly. Like I said on my post about Twitter, I can’t find one person who can give me a solid reason why we should use it? Can you give me one?
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Nikki,
I have to agree with you. I thought twitter was the most pointless website that was ever made. I felt that who care about what you are eating and who made you mad. After using it for the class I feel differently now. I would never use it personally but as a networking tool it is very convenient. I met a lady on there that was in charge for setting up internships and I probably would have never met her if I didn’t explore twitter.
Christen
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