Can you consider yourself a "twitterer" or "tweeter"? If so, you will be able to easily relate to this post. Twitter is taking over the world, basically. Lately its quite impossible to find someone who doesn't have a twitter account or hasn't considered one. Twitter is the new black, the new Facebook. Everyone and their mother wants one these days. Twitter started thanks to a 10-person start up group out of San Francisco, called Obvious. With over 200 million users, twitter is used by the world for a variety of tasks, emails, advertisment, and of course social networking. By one quick tweet you are able to share with the entire world your latest thoughts, whereabouts, and all time favorite, complaints. Whether its a, #Happytweet, #Sadtweet, or #Angrytweet your able to post that sucker just about anywhere, in between classes, on your morning commute, or laying in your bed at night. Twitter's accessibility and publicity has influenced its growth the past couple of years. Businesses and celebrities use it as an advantage to promote new albums or products etc. Its a whole lot more than just simply a social network.
The author of this article clearly understood who their audience was going to be, tweeters, soon to be tweeters and curious soon to be soon to be tweeters. As well as making the article easy to read and relateable, they also used statistics and hard facts to show how extremely successful twitter is becoming. The author uses comic relief and interesting facts to keep the reader interested and wanting more. I was able to relate to this article very well because I am a proud user of twitter, and love to admit that I am obsessed. As long as you can share what's on your mind in 140 characters or less twitter is the thing for you!
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/twitter/index.html
That reminds me of a writing assignment I was going to give. For instance, summarize a whole book in 140 characters or less. Pretty challenging, huh? But I think it can be done. It might even be fun. If I forget, remind me of it during class one day.
ReplyDeleteBeing as stubborn as I am, I still refuse to get a Twitter. However, I found your entry to be very informative and I enjoyed learning about how Tweeters came to be. (the history)
ReplyDeleteMy cousin tried to set up a Twitter account for me, but I couldn't figure out how to work it. I really liked your analysis of the article and how you included the group of ten people made the website.
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