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While walking down a busy street or sitting on a bus or train, you will always catch someone on their phones, and the chances are they are checking up on a social media account like twitter. Twitter has millions of users logged on and checking their timelines everyday, but what are they looking at?
a recent study funded by twitter has shown that 86% of twitter users use twitter for news updates. The reason twitter is so successful is because of its convenience and fast updates. Rather than waiting for the news to come on or picking up a newspaper or tuning to a news channel, twitter allows you to take your phone out of your pocket wherever you are and updates you on national and world news the second you click on the famous blue bird icon. When national and world events occur, minutes sometimes second later there will be a twitter post from a witness posted for everyone to see and retweet. If this isn't fast news then i don't know what is.Even tv news channels are using twitter to their advantage and acquiring the information from the social media site to use for the night's broadcast. Another beauty of twitter news is you can tweet about the events as they unfold.
There are other uses for twitter also, mainly to speak your mind, look for entertainment, and to talk to distant people. although these only make up for 14% of twitter activity because other social media sites including instagram, facebook and youtube do these things more effectively than twitter. facebook is mainly for speaking your mind and keeping in touch with friends. Instagram is for entertainment and some people use it to rant. and youtube is purely for entertainment.
`I am an avid user of all these sites and I am guilty of being one of those people to take out my phone wherever i am and check these sites. Twitter has become so convenient to the point where it a becomes a habit if not an addiction to take out your phone and check it whenever you aren't engaged in reality. And the scary part is sometimes you aren't aware of it and it's a subconscious thing to check social media. My generation does not pick up a newspaper of tune into the evening news, we pick up our devices and mindlessly check the sites we have come to know and love
This may be to our advantage however. Our generation is not held back from the world we live in and we are exposed to all its horror and goodness through social media. there hasn't been a day where i've been on social media and haven't seen a campaign to stop global warming or gun violence, and i always see people tweeting “pray for” and inserting the victim of the tragic event. When we grow up there won't be any surprises when we see a polar bear trying to balance on a tiny block of ice, or a skinny skeleton of a child reaching out his hand for hope and food and we can thank social media for keeping us updated and eliminating our ignorance on the world we live in
a recent study funded by twitter has shown that 86% of twitter users use twitter for news updates. The reason twitter is so successful is because of its convenience and fast updates. Rather than waiting for the news to come on or picking up a newspaper or tuning to a news channel, twitter allows you to take your phone out of your pocket wherever you are and updates you on national and world news the second you click on the famous blue bird icon. When national and world events occur, minutes sometimes second later there will be a twitter post from a witness posted for everyone to see and retweet. If this isn't fast news then i don't know what is.Even tv news channels are using twitter to their advantage and acquiring the information from the social media site to use for the night's broadcast. Another beauty of twitter news is you can tweet about the events as they unfold.
There are other uses for twitter also, mainly to speak your mind, look for entertainment, and to talk to distant people. although these only make up for 14% of twitter activity because other social media sites including instagram, facebook and youtube do these things more effectively than twitter. facebook is mainly for speaking your mind and keeping in touch with friends. Instagram is for entertainment and some people use it to rant. and youtube is purely for entertainment.
`I am an avid user of all these sites and I am guilty of being one of those people to take out my phone wherever i am and check these sites. Twitter has become so convenient to the point where it a becomes a habit if not an addiction to take out your phone and check it whenever you aren't engaged in reality. And the scary part is sometimes you aren't aware of it and it's a subconscious thing to check social media. My generation does not pick up a newspaper of tune into the evening news, we pick up our devices and mindlessly check the sites we have come to know and love
This may be to our advantage however. Our generation is not held back from the world we live in and we are exposed to all its horror and goodness through social media. there hasn't been a day where i've been on social media and haven't seen a campaign to stop global warming or gun violence, and i always see people tweeting “pray for” and inserting the victim of the tragic event. When we grow up there won't be any surprises when we see a polar bear trying to balance on a tiny block of ice, or a skinny skeleton of a child reaching out his hand for hope and food and we can thank social media for keeping us updated and eliminating our ignorance on the world we live in