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How Has Twitter Changed The World

Twitter is a social media platform launched in 2006 that allows users to post and read messages called tweets. Tweets are limited to 140 characters and are publicly visible by default. The platform has changed how people communicate and stay informed in real time. It has also made celebrities more accessible by allowing them to directly interact with fans. Twitter's simplicity compared to other platforms has contributed to its success and widespread adoption around the world.

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How Has Twitter Changed The World

Twitter is a social media platform launched in 2006 that allows users to post and read messages called tweets. Tweets are limited to 140 characters and are publicly visible by default. The platform has changed how people communicate and stay informed in real time. It has also made celebrities more accessible by allowing them to directly interact with fans. Twitter's simplicity compared to other platforms has contributed to its success and widespread adoption around the world.

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How Has Twitter

Changed the world?


Twitter is a website owned and operated by Twitter Inc,
launched in the year of 2006. Founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan
Williams and Briz Stone. It offers social networking and micro-
blogging service which allows users to send and read other user's
messages which are also called as tweets. Tweets are text-based
posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. It
is visible to public by default, however users can restrict message
delivery to their friend's list. Users may subscribe to other tweets -
this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers.

The main purpose only for Twitter is to post anything which


they only ask us one thing, “What are you doing?” We have the
freedom to post anything on Twitter, but not abusive types which
may lead us to bad feedbacks from the other followers and
members. Though Twitter veterans may remember the original
question as being "What Are You Doing?" - this was changed in
2009. More than any other social network, Twitter has managed to
work itself in our daily language. Not only has "Twitter" worked its
way into our vocabulary, but "tweeting" (the act of updating
twitter), "tweeple" (Twitter people) and "twits" (Twitter users) have
also seemed to slide in there as well.

According to Steven Johnson, at first it was said that one thing


for sure is it would take a terrible first impression.  Why does the
world exactly need this? It's not as if we were all sitting around four
years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a
technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50
friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast
cereal." Before twitter came, blogging was the famous one. But
what people was worried about was the threat that blogging posed
to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts
replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams was
launching a communications platform that limited you to a couple of
sentences at most. And yet as millions of devotees have discovered,
Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because
hearing about what our friends had for breakfast is actually more
interesting than it sounds. But there is something even more
profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years,
something that says more about the culture that has embraced and
expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-
status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought.
But the key development with Twitter is how we've jury-rigged the
system to do things that its creators never dreamed of. In short, the
most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's
what we're doing to it.

Twitter has made itself accessible. It made its users seem


more accessible as well. Several international, national and local
celebrities are known Twitter addicts, tweeting backstage before
shows or between shootings of their TV shows or movies. These
people are represented by faceless PR on "personal blogs" or other
social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, but manage
to hold down an active Twitter account of their own. Like Ashton
Kutcher, Shaq, Wil Wheaton, and Justin Beiber, they are all known
Tweeters. This is a smart move on their own part for a few reasons.
It's a great way to keep in touch with their fans and followers, and it
really does help blur the line between "fan" and "celebrity" - making
them seem more accessible to those who follow them. So even in
the business of entertainment, it really changed on how celebrities
update their fans by tweeting. In this way, they can easily keep in
touch with their fans.

It's surprisingly easy to browse because Twitter is the most


basic of social networking sites. Twitter performs much better than
other overly-customizable sites. With few images and a streamlined
update page, Twitter loads fast, updates easily, and has a rather
easy learning curve. It's Twitter's simplicity that has contributed to
its success. Now, Twitter encourages third-party development of
Twitter applications just like in Facebook - which has launched
thousands of third-party apps aimed at everything from updating
our Twitter status from our desktop, iPhone, iPad, cellphone, or just
about anything else that can access the internet, to rating how
efficient we are at tweeting. Not only is this a fun and effective way
to enjoy Twitter, but several news and weather stations have taken
the time to sync their updates with Twitter, allowing us to get
important information straight to our computer or even on the go.

Relating the said article on how has twitter changed the


worldin our website, it is far different because the accessibility and
the program of twitter are close to basic unlike ours. Our website is
under the website builder Socialgo which is caestud.socialgo.com.
You can do a lot of things there, which offers some things that are
not available in Twitter just like the chatting, forums, groups and
etc (because it is so close to facebook). If we'll be also asked if how
our website has changed its users, i would sum it up like this:  easy
access andprivacy(within the College of Accounting Education
students esp to the users).

REFERENCES

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/whats-happening-a-lot-says-
twitter-coo/

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Twitter-
snags-over-100-million-users-eyes-money-
making/articleshow/5808927.cms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-
development/articles/86736.aspx

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604-
1,00.html

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