Twitter and its usage!

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Twitter have been emerged into a new micro-blogging application where it could be installed in our mobile phones or it could also be accessed using a laptop or a computer using the old school web browsers.

Twitter is normally used to just post about our random daily lives, it only allow 140 characters, so imagine in that tiny space, how many tweets(posts) a person could tweet a day. Twitter is used by many because not only you can connect with your friends but also if you were to start your own business, twitter is the choice for you to have zero cost publicity.

Twitter is the new black, blogs are so yesterday. Reason why I think is because Twitter, a micro-blogging application is easy accessed, it could even be accessed on mobile phones now. Whereas blogs are so old school where you have to launch it with a web browser and then wait for it to load. Twitter could be done anywhere at anytime.


As for news agencies, Twitter is also widely used. According to Nic Dawes, the editor of the Mail & Guardian, when asked about what values had twitter add to news operation, he mentioned said:” On a news level, as I have mentioned, it helps with tip-offs, sourcing, alerting us to breaking stories, and a sense of one slice of public opinion. It also makes us part of a networked news community that includes other journalists, bloggers, ordinary readers, public officials, sports stars, entertainment world figures and politicians. It helps to turn us from an oracular source to an active participant in that community.” (memeburn, 2010)


According to Syed Jaymal Zahiid from The Malaysian Insider, he said that politicians in Malaysia now turn to Twitter to further promote their blog.

“A microblogging site like Twitter allows political leaders like Anwar, DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang and Umno maverick Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to send short instant updates, ideas and thoughts on current affairs instead of long personal journals”, he said.


In my opinion, Twitter is not only useful but also it disseminates message really fast and easy, but that also depends on the person who is tweeting. We have to consider who is tweeting, and based on thier tweets, how credible are they and also are they who they are as mentioned.

I myself am a twitter addict, I used to think it is an application where you use it because you have excess time and also love telling the whole world about yourself. But after I used it, the effects of us using it to the extent we get hooked to it. Mainly I think it is because it is simply a great way to build connections and also at the same time re-connect with your old friends.


References:

Zahid, S.J 2010, "Blogging is so yesterday, politicians turn to Twitter", TheMalaysianInsider.com, viewed 14 November 2010, <http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/Blogging-is-so-yesterday-politicians-turn-to-Twitter/>


Daniel, J 2010, 'Twitter and its impact on journalism', memeburn.com, viewed 14 November 2010, <http://memeburn.com/2010/08/interview-mg-editor-discusses-twitters-impact-on-journalism/>