Twitter is nothing like Facebook or other social networking sites that allows you to post pictures and information about yourself. Twitter is more of a promotional advertising, and breaking news type of information sharing site. It allows individuals to promote their likes and interests and allows them to follow news on famous people, friends, world leaders, or news channel for up to date information that may be important. It allows anyone to be a journalist and to broadcast news by tweeting or re-tweeting other tweets that people share.
Twitter provides easy, fast updates on worldwide events and happenings at the touch of a finger whether it is on a laptop or on a smart phone. There is less information being shared about the person themselves and more about their interests and followers. Tweeting controls the amount of information being shared in a post to 140 words so this way it’s more of a breaking news report style presentation rather than paragraphs about an event. You are also able to use hyperlinks to link to a site that may have a full length article about the event for people to further read into and find more information.
Twitter is simple and easy to use for all across the world and brings everyone together to hear breaking news. Finding people to follow is a breeze, all you have to do is type their name in the search bar and you find their page. Hash tags allow people to trend with others across the world and combine them into one page. It connects people from different areas and shows them who else has that interest, like, or activity going on. Twitter, is a public site that helps to promote and share, information, events, and celebrity news to everyone across the world at the touch of a button and follow. It contains less junk and ads then facebook and provides a faster service to the online community.
Paul -- what use is Twitter to journalists? What was your Twitter experience like? This is descriptive, but I'd like to see you critically analyze the site.
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