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Some Facts on Twitter and Social Media

byCandaceBosch
April 29, 2017 394 Views0 Likes
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Some Facts on Twitter and Social Media

  • Twitter is a social media platform involving online news and networking that allows individuals to post content and interact with friends via messages (also known as ‘tweets’). Tweets are restricted to 140 characters.
  • Leslie Walker, author of the article What is Twitter states that Twitter is “a free social messaging service for sending and receiving short messages in real time. It’s often called a social network or a microblogging service, but it’s really just an instant messaging service on steroids”.
  • Twitter started in 2006 and is a mixture of messaging, blogging and texting.
  • Twitter is all about broadcasting daily messages to individuals around the world in the hopes that they will be read, understood and helpful
  • Twitter allows individuals to discover new people and/or companies and ‘follow’ them in order to get daily updates and bursts of information that the individual is interested in
  • Twitter puts all updates on one page (news feed) that allows individuals to scroll through them. This makes obtaining relevant information quick and easy
  • If you find someone interesting and you would like to ‘follow’ them, you simple click ‘follow’ and this gives you access to receive their twitter updates and subscribe to their tweet microblogs
  • Although anyone can post content on Twitter, research suggests that there is a growing number of individuals posting very useful content such as new journalists, experts and scholars
  • Twitter can be seen as a form of amateur news reporting whereby individuals can learn about the world through the eyes of another
  • Twitter can be used by businesses as a marketing tool making advertising fast, easy and inexpensive
  • Twitter can be used by people in order to create a ‘following’ of individuals who are interested in you and what your life revolves around. An example of this could be a scuba diver tweeting about his/her trips to the Maldives
  • Celebrities use Twitter in order to connect on a more personal level with their fans. Some famous tweeters Ashton Kutcher and President Obama.

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