Twitter

The technology of the world is expanding each day.  Many people now use their computers to socialize and connect with their friends on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.  In the past many people communicated in person or over phone which would take much more time, now in the year 2012 you can simultaneously contact your friends in a single second.  This technology has been extremely helpful and has helped evolve the way people communicate, but there are also downsides to it.  Using Twitter or Facebook can be addictive and can take a large amount of time out of your day and can be hard to get away from.  Also social networking is extremely unforgiving as one may post something that can defer a future employer from hiring you.

Twitter is a very helpful tool for businesses to get there ideas out to a large audiences.  If a company would like to put out a public statement or announcement it could be sent to all of there followers instantly and could create a buzz about one their services or products.  Also, businesses can promote their tweets so they come up at the top of each user’s page. 

The main driving force behind twitter is the social aspect.  There are nearly 250,000,000 Tweets per day and 100,000,000+ active users.  The majority of the user base is people using the website to converse with friends and share pictures.  From my personal experience friends have conversations about sports, school and what’s going on in their personal lives. 

Entertainment is one of the elements that have made Twitter popular.  At first many celebrities and athletes began making Twitter pages and that’s what made other people want to use the service to know what there favorite celebrities were doing.  Along with following celebrities, Twitter is used to keep users up to date with the newest details on concert dates and new movie releases also.

Many popular news outlets such as ABC News, CNN and MSNBC all tweet and keep users updated with up to the minute breaks in news.  Before writing articles on their websites they can put a short 160 character blurb which can get the news out.  For example the New York Yankees just recently put out a tweet that Andy Pettitte will be returning to the Yankees this season.

For recreational purposes twitter has a trending section that shows the hottest topics at the moment.  Many times people like to mess around with the trending topics and make jokes or comments refereeing to them.  Other recreational uses include tweeting friends and striking conversation amongst each other.