[pic] What is it? Why use it? And what are the advantages and disadvantages of Twitter? Twitter is an online application that cannot be defined as one single tool. As such, this application is part a blog, part a social networking site and part cell phone/IM tool, designed to let users answer the question: “What are you doing?”. Users have 140 characters for each posting (or “tweet”) to say whatever they care to say. Many tweets do answer the question of what the user is doing, but plenty of others are responses to other tweets, pointers to online resources that the user found interesting, musings, or questions. Basically, Twitter is about conversation. Although, it is possible to have a conversation on blogs, on Facebook and on …show more content…
It 's not uncommon to have trouble connecting to Twitter 's site; • There is little sophistication to the presentation. You can only have one photo attached to your profile at a time, and little detailed information about yourself. It 's not a great way for people to get to know you, unless you are very good at expressing yourself in 140 characters or less. • Without the advantage of selectively specifying your target audience, your message is in danger of being diluted among the masses. Chances are that most of the people who follow you on Twitter aren 't really paying attention to what you have to say. • Is has no groups, videos, blogs, classified ads, forums, marketplace and other unique and popular social networking menus; • Because Twitter can be anonymous and it is allowed the user to choose any available user name he would like. You may not have any idea who is really following you. • It can be automated and, consequently, you can 't count on the timely integrity of other tweeters ' information either. As far as you know, a robot wrote their tweet in order to active Twitter someone’ presence with very little effort. Twitter in Hospitality Industry Although these limitations and as it was already mentioned, Twitter is now a powerful social marketing tool and the hospitality business, like any other industry of services, cannot ignore this fact. As such, there are innumerous ideas that can be used toward the hospitality companies and
Proclaimed as the hottest company since Google and Facebook, Twitter introduced a revolutionary micro-blogging service in 2006 that allowed users to spread and share short messages of 140 characters (“tweets”) with friends and strangers subscribing to follow their communication flow (as so called “followers”) in order to find out what is happening right now from any point of the globe.
The main reasons for the use of twitter are that you able to “follow” interesting people, follow trends, good for promoting brands/companies, plenty of celebrity access, and “to the point tweets” as you are limited to type less than 140 characters and finally, a good source for breaking
Twitter is one of the most popular social media outlets in the world, having the ability to connect people from all over the world. Though the platform may have its perks, problems such as being limited to using very few characters, being fooled by fraudulent users, and being a detriment to your future career are all risks that one must choose to take. While Twitter may offers many benefits, one must realize all of the consequences that they may be faced with when joining the social media
One of the advantages of twitter is a very simple and educational social network. This allows to be aware of everything that interests you, such as communities, celebrities, or just people who are not famous, but they write very interesting things. Although the twitter is a social network where you
Twitter one of the most popular social networking sites. Both personal and corporate users enjoy twittering to engage in information-sharing. It has social as well as commercial utility. However, as is also the case with Facebook, Twitter is still striving to make its business model profitable as well as generate user traffic. Advertisers and marketers are interested in Twitter's ability to provide data about potential customers as well as its ability to expose users to advertising. However, there have been a number of concerns regarding the monetization of Twitter. Twitter's potential for 'data-mining' is alarming to many users. "By virtue of having a large number of users, Twitter also possessed such a database of personal information, as well as a large archive of personal messages" (Privacy issues and monetizing Twitter, 2011, Richard Ivey School of Business: 6).
Twitter as a platform was originally created with the intent to have the users become microbloggers (Arceneaux and Weiss). Now as we’ve seen, the platform has essentially turned users into mobile journalist, allowing them to be the creators and distributors of information. Twitter has been useful in support of the movement in various way. First, the platform offers reliable media coverage. Most of the general public turns on the news to stay updated but others log into Twitter. The reasoning why is because Twitter is known for broadcasting live videos and information before major news outlets. Furthermore, unlike the media, Twitter users, majority of the time relay the information promptly without misrepresenting or biasly giving out false information which major
Now, Twitter realizes it can’t do this alone. They have sought help. Patricia Cartes, head of Twitter's Global Policy Outreach explains that their goal is... “To ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter, we must provide more tools and policies.”
Twitter is used for staying connected with followers and promoting products, news, and corporate blog posts. They also use it to share content. One use of twitter is to share the current news in the industry. Along with this, they also post news that links users who click on it back to their website and to their blog. Pepperl+Fuchs uses their blog on their website as their main source of promoting products and dealing with customers. Another use for twitter is linking them with their partnering companies and helping promote them as well. For example, one tweet was, “Intertek collaborates with Pepperl+Fuchs on first hazardous locations panel shop project.” This linked users to a page on the Internet that talked about the partnership created and the project that was on hand. This example also ties into the idea of Pepperl+Fuchs using Twitter to share news. Overall, they use twitter to welcome new followers and create a community to share ideas and news about Pepperl+Fuchs, but their tweets mainly consists with links that take the user back to their blog or to articles on their
Twitter is also extremely popular; it provides a vehicle for very short messages or "tweets" that can be
The group wanted to somehow effectively visualize the main characters’ progression through the story. Creating a Twitter page was selected since Twitter allows the user to post short statements and thoughts. Posts on Twitter are kept to a 140 character limit, keeping posts brief, but straight to the point. Through these short blips of information, the group wanted to capture certain thoughts or moments as the story progressed. This could reveal some character development. Twitter also allows people to “subtweet” or reply to other tweets. By using the concept of Twitter, we can introduce other minor
So the researchers need to use people’s tweets at that time as their research resource. Even though it is legal for the researchers to republish Twitter users’ tweets according to Twitter Terms of Service, some users might not be willing to republish their tweets or republish their tweets with their usernames. The researchers have to ask the users’ opinions whether they are willing to republish their tweets for respecting the users’ autonomies. When the researchers acknowledge autonomy, they have to inform the users whose tweets will be republished that the purpose and goals of the research, what information the researchers are looking for in their tweet, and the target and potential audience of the research in order to protect the users’ autonomies. For example, some users might not want their acquaintance or parents who don’t use social media to know that they were in a dangerous situation at 2012, because they don’t want their acquaintance or parents to worry. At this time, they would like to know the target and potential audience of the research. Some users need to know the purpose and goals of the research because they need to ensure that the researchers won’t damage their reputation by using
Over the past decade, social media has been a medium for people to communicate with friends and family, meeting new people, and letting others know what is going on in your life. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter allow you to dive into the world of those around you; allowing you to check up on what is going on in the lives of those you know. At first glance you’d imagine that there couldn’t be any flaws to these new ways of communication, at least that’s what we all thought when we first logged on.
I would like to introduce you to Twitter Inc., a modern and popular form of self-expression on the Internet. It provides users with a plethora of services including Twitter, an application that allows the user to share and distribute content to their followers. The company also owns Vine, a mobile application where users can create and share short looping videos, and #Music, another mobile application that
Twitter is a service for people to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. It's an online social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read short 140 character text messages, called "tweets". Twitter is a social website where people are allowed to make posts about different things. Twitter has 645,750,000 registered users as of January 1, 2014. Twitter is now stepping up to global television. Micro blogging is the posting of very short entries or updates on a blog or social networking site, typically via a cellular phone. Twitter allows its users to keep their friends and family informed of their current status. Twitter first began in 2008 as a small project; but now
As far as I am concerned, social networks play an increasingly important role in shaping the behavior of Web users. Twitter stands out from the others, not only for the platform’s simplicity but also for the great influence that ‘’tweets’’ can have (Del Campo et al. 2013).