Twitter is a tool- use it dont fear it
Since 2004 Facebook has become necessity in everyone's life. If you do not have a Facebook, it is considered to be creepy and odd. It has taken everyone by surprise and completely changed the world.
But whats happening with Twitter. Until 2008-2009 people did not pay much attention to twitter. Everyone had an account but no one used it.
Twitter was launched in 2006 but it did not take the world by storm like Facebook did. People were confused about using twitter.
Dickerson says that in his article that people fear twitter. He talks about the fact that its OK to create a new piece with in 140 characters. He says that journalism and print media is becoming smaller, more compact.
In the new world, everything is short and sweet. People like to read something with in seconds to understand the whole story and move on with their busy life.
The argument is that this loses the value of journalism. But I look at it as adding value. A value that is important to the current world.
Which leads us in to the next article.
Lowery talks about how Twitter has helped her company broadcast to a wider audience via twitter. This is also the cheapest way to reach this audience. A nice example that she talks about a story where it was a court case in a court house. Both parties were tweeting what was happening in the court room. And they were both checking each others tweets at the same time. This made the case turn in to another direction. The judge finally had to order everyone to stop tweeting inside the court room.
Here are five points the author made
Tweeting is not facebook status updates
Twitter adds value to the story
Twitter ads personality to the story
Twitter is one of the free and the easiest ways of reach a large number of an audience
Twitter is a tool- and you know what they say about tools - Don't give it to a monkey (well that's actually a Sri Lankan phrase :) )
But whats happening with Twitter. Until 2008-2009 people did not pay much attention to twitter. Everyone had an account but no one used it.
Twitter was launched in 2006 but it did not take the world by storm like Facebook did. People were confused about using twitter.
Dickerson says that in his article that people fear twitter. He talks about the fact that its OK to create a new piece with in 140 characters. He says that journalism and print media is becoming smaller, more compact.
In the new world, everything is short and sweet. People like to read something with in seconds to understand the whole story and move on with their busy life.
The argument is that this loses the value of journalism. But I look at it as adding value. A value that is important to the current world.
Which leads us in to the next article.
Lowery talks about how Twitter has helped her company broadcast to a wider audience via twitter. This is also the cheapest way to reach this audience. A nice example that she talks about a story where it was a court case in a court house. Both parties were tweeting what was happening in the court room. And they were both checking each others tweets at the same time. This made the case turn in to another direction. The judge finally had to order everyone to stop tweeting inside the court room.
Here are five points the author made
Tweeting is not facebook status updates
Twitter adds value to the story
Twitter ads personality to the story
Twitter is one of the free and the easiest ways of reach a large number of an audience
Twitter is a tool- and you know what they say about tools - Don't give it to a monkey (well that's actually a Sri Lankan phrase :) )
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