Twitter
is described as a place where you can, “Instantly connect to what's most
important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and
breaking news”. T.W.E.E.T. stands for target, write, engage, explore, and
track. People believe that social media is a terrible thing, and in some cases
it could be seen that way, but if it is used correctly, then it is a great
tool. This app lets people voice their opinion on any topic that they can think
of. The total number of active registered Twitter users is estimated to be
554,750,000 people. It’s crazy to think that I am just one of the users
included in that very large statistic. Some of the reasons why Twitter is used
are to simply participate in the new phenomenon of tweeting, to communicate
with your followers or group, to communicate with the World-at-large, to
archive your online and/or offline activities, and for branding a product or
service, because it’s required by a school assignment.
Twitter
allows you to promote your business in a positive light. The social app
connects you to your a larger audience of customers world-wide. Engaging with
your customers will allow your business to grow and become more popular,
especially when using hashtags. Due to the large amount of followers one may
have on twitter, it becomes easier to “spread the word”. Twitter was once used
to help the unemployed. This project brought attention to many people and made
a true difference. On the other hand, Twitter can be used negatively when socializing
with other people. It can cause drama and can practically set a rude tone that
may not even be existent.
Even
in the white house Twitter is a huge problem to look out for. A White House
national security staffer was reportedly fired for Twitter postings under alias
and that is a serious issue that we should pay regards to. Jofi Joseph was his
name and the account, titled @natsecwonk, was deleted last week. The posts
never mentioned any detailed and high classed information; however, it did
contain details that should not have been put out to the public in any which
way or form. The tweets discussed unappealing views on Obama’s administration
policies and administration officials.
Twitter
can also help shine some light on a new TV show, movie, or talk show, for
example. It can gain popularity and become very successful due to the large
audience. From another point of view, people can make rude comments on that TV
show, movie, or talk show and that program can become unsuccessful as well
depending on the “consumer” of the “product”.This app can project news across
the world rapidly, which can be important for foreign countries; however maybe
the United States wants to keep that information to themselves in case that
information should not have been given out to the public just yet. From a
recreational point of view, a simple random tweet may be funny to some of the
public and may be “retweeted” or “favorited”. Others may find that random tweet
to be offensive to let’s say their religion, sexual preference, or anything
else of the sort.
Twitter
can be abused by users called trolls. These “trolls” are people who use their
accounts to send out abusive messages directly to another individual. In order
to prevent these people from getting away with this you can easily use the
block button, report abusive tweets or spam, report abusive tweets to the
police, force accounts reported as abusive into "protected tweet"
mode, flag repeat offenders with a yellow flag, which appears on their account
details, and many other solutions are available online.
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