This week’s weekly analysis is about the wonderful technology of Twitter. Twitter is the latest and greatest piece of technology that people use to communicate or share they’re lives. People caught on to this new communication tool because of its simplicity. According to Twitter (2009), “People are eager to connect with other people and Twitter makes that simple. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. Twitter's core technology is a device agnostic message routing system with rudimentary social networking features. By accepting messages from sms, web, mobile web, instant message, or from third party API projects, Twitter makes it easy for folks to stay connected.” Twitter has rapidly become one of the most widely used social networking tools. There are celebrities that use this and are followed by millions all over the world. You can be watching your favorite team play and while one of the star players is in the locker room at half time, he posts what he should have done on one play or how he thinks he is performing. Twitter is also seen on many of the more modern television shows and movies. When the protests were going on in Iran, the citizens were posting what was currently going on over there. This became very useful over there because the government began to disconnect all means of communication. As long as Twitter keeps things simple and intuitive, their user environment will continue to grow. I personally don’t use the social networking tools; however I know as time goes by and as technology grows I will am sure that I will be “tweeting” like the rest of the world. Until then, I will continue to post to this blog and use email and my cell phone.
Twitter (2009). Why do so many people seem to like twitter? Retrieved from
http://twitter.com/about#about.
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