Twitter

We are being updated with new information continuously, it was first via Internet and television where all we had to do was turn on the television to a news station and we could find out whats happening in the world, or just open up the Internet and your web browser had the top stories.

 I remember when the war in Iraq had first started and their was a huge debate on what can be shown on TV. While they where literally giving us live coverge of what was happening, the US forces locations where compromised. Or when 9/11 had literally happened and they had live coverage, you could see the people jumping out of the building. Later showings of that clip, they had removed the images of the people jumping out of the buildings because it was to graphic for television.

Now that twitter is here, we get information instantaneously, all I have to do is look at my phone on the downloaded twitter application, and I have been caught up on my events for that minute. People post their own personal video clips of news, that don't have to go through the laws and people that news stations have to go through. It makes me think about all the offensive videos that will probably be posted on twitter in the future.

Twitter connects me to people that I will probably never meet, and those people are people that are in the field that I am looking to study in and could probably give me some good advice. The tags make it easy to search a topic of interest and get other peoples view points on them, and even lets you ask questions to those people personally.

Twitter is completely different to face book, I personally think that face book is a terrible waste of time, if I want to keep in touch with someone I will do the polite thing and call them on the phone. Twitter is more about getting in touch with the world, getting to learn more about your interests and work

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