Essay #1

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service and a small blog. Twitter allows the users to write 140 characters in massages known as “tweets”. However, the tweets are limited for a 1 day. In order to see your friend activates you must follow him and the opposite is right. The more people you follow the more you have to read.

Twitter website opened in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone. It started as a side project but a lot of people signed in, and now millions around the world using Twitter to keep in touch with families and friends. The idea came first from Jack Dorsey. He was trying to find the best way of keeping in touch with friends. Williams had joined with Biz and Dorsey, from which Twitter was born. “Williams has been named one of the 25 most influential people on the web by Time magazine” (Beaumont.2008). Jack Dorsey was a student in New York City but he moved to California. Biz Stone also have a hand on creating Twitter. He remains the creative director of twitter.

Well, what can we say about twitter growth? It’s something incredible happened so fast, Twitter started to be famous since 2007. It had 400,000 tweets posted per quarter and these 400,000 tweets became 100 million in 2008.Twitter users started to be active more than before they were posting nearly 49 tweets each day. A lot of users registered for twitter and twitter started to gain its growth and so on, in March 2011 there were 140 million tweets posted each day. Many ranking websites ranked twitter and as mentioned on Compete.com, Twitter had the third highest ranking. In 2010 the company started to work on making a new look of twitter “New Twitter” they were trying to change the entire look of the homepage and adding some new features like “retweet” button if you want to say like your friend, but the best thing been added to the new look is the links feature that you can surf the link without leaving twitter, image or video whatever it’s.

Twitter is not like other social networks, every social network have her own style, and her own features. However Twitter make people more addicted when they sign and write their tweets. Users will feel like they are living in between the worlds of blogging, instant messages, and Emails. Facebook fans will not get into twitter too much, because Twitter is a piece of Facebook. “When asked why they love Twitter, users say like I can ask a question and get an instantaneous response.”(Steve. 2009).

In the end, all social networks are simply communication tools. Every social network has advantages and disadvantages. In fact most users when they joined twitter they tweets useless updates like “am going to have a lunch with….” However Facebook and Twitter are the best networks for now, each can have great or little value to anyone; it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish in a given situation.

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Section: CIP

ID: H00224638

References

Beaumont, C. (2008, November 25). The team behind Twitter: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams - Telegraph. The team behind Twitter. Retrieved March 22, 2012, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3520024/The-team-behind-Twitter-Jack-Dorsey-Biz-Stone-and-Evan-Williams.html

Steve ,T (2009, January 13). Twitter Tips - TwiTip. Retrieved April 12, 2012, from http://www.twitip.com/twitter-versus-facebook/

Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter,Wikipedia. Retrieved March 22, 2012, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

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