Tweeting

As many others in this class, Twitter as well as Twitpic were also another first for me. It took me a while to figure out how to tweet, fallow people, and respond to other posts but it became easier the more I explored. When my mouse would hover over an icon there was a label as to what it was, that was very helpful. I still don't know what the hash tags are all about. It was really hard to try and keep up with classmates and their tweets because some people didn't use their name so I had to keep counting to make sure I didn't miss Tweeting anyone.

Twitter has more uses than just socializing. You can learn all sorts of fun facts from the tweets people post. When fallowing people on twitter you can become more aware of the major events going on in the world. This is great because those who are “addicted” to the computer or the internet are hopefully not so sheltered. Twitter has a discover page where they suggest people or organizations you might enjoy reading or watching.

Twitter can be used to help journalists, politicians and also help people be organized by finding out what the most popular topics are, also what pictures and videos are getting the most attention.

The topic I chose for my twitter posts is being kind to the earth because its a topic I am very passionate about. The three groups I chose to fallow are National Geographic, because it's my favorite magazine. The second group I choose to fallow was NBC Nightly News because its my favorite news program. The third thing I fallowed was Nikki Sixx because I he is my favorite artist.

This was the first time I even went to the Twitter website. When first starting I didn't know the first thing about Twitter. I just figured that Twitter was another version of Facebook and Myspace. Twitter is different from blogging in the fact that Twitter you only have 140 characters to write something, where blogging you have all the space you want. Twitter is more of a “texting on the internet” where a blog is more of a “diary on the internet”. On twitter you can see what the most popular subject people are talking about. You can also see the top pictures and videos people are talking about. It's difficult to respond to Tweets that are not interesting or you know nothing about the topic. I don't think I will be using Twitter again.