What do you think of Twitter? What are some of the positives and negatives of the medium?
Frankly speaking, I have a very limited experience with twitter to form any opinion about it. To me, any form of social networking takes up a lot of time which can very well be spent interacting with the immediate society around us. Twitter, as far as I understand is a quick messaging service, like text messaging, only difference being it can reach an unlimited number of people all at the same time. The short messages showing the status updates reflects a sense urgency, which i felt was not necessary in most cases. Unless it is of utmost importance, I can wait till the next morning to get the news, neither I feel that many people will be interested in the changes in my personal status unless it changes dramatically overnight.
Positives of twitter- It has definitely changed the way public interactions and transactions take place in the business organizations and institutions where a constant changes are taking place every moment. For businesses like airlines, celebrities who need constant public attention, news media channels competing with each other to be the first to break the news, twitter is undoubtedly an excellent platform, connecting the world in an amazing way, serving as a great marketing niche.
Negatives of twitter- It can create information overload, with the constant stream of updates from the people you follow, which can be pretty overwhelming to many. There are a lot of limitations, like postings are limited to only 140 characters, which are often not enough to express ones views clearly, resulting in meaningless tweets. Also, there are other forms of social networking tools available that offer much more flexibility and functionality, that can make your postings more dynamic and attractive with pictures, videos and texts and more complete two way communication between both the parties, person writing the posts and his/her followers, which is not possible in twitter.
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