I say what I think in 140 characters or less. Every thought I think must now be expressed in 140 characters or less. It's an iceberg. My tweets are just the tips of the icebergs buoyed above the surface, hiding the good and meaty stuff hundreds of feet below where the color is more black than blue.
I'm still able to get my point across.
Followers want to know what I'm doing. No, seriously. Each clicked the button, all 347 of them. I'm sure some felt the need to click the button to be nice, but I'm going to estimate that's a small percentage, minimal, minute, microscopic ... (probably the majority).
But where else can the Twitterverse follow the Pittsburgh Pirates through the eyes of a 21-year-old fan who has never seen a winning season of baseball, unless you count the time when I couldn't control my own bladder or bowels (I was one). What a glorious time, but I have digressed. By the way, the answer to that: any other 21-year-old living in the greater Pittsburgh area who happens to tweet about the Pirates.
My 9,154+ tweets contain something enjoyable for everyone. I'm confident. One tweet is all it takes to get hooked. One out of 9,154. So you're saying there's a chance ...
Enough with the funny.
Twitter sends information around the world in the quickest way possible, most notably when involving some type of death (i.e. Joe Paterno, Osama Bin Laden). However, how many times have you seen the hashtag #RIP next to a celebrity who is most definitely still alive. It's a slippery slope when it comes to credibility, but nonetheless it's great at spreading information.
Twitter seems to be everywhere. Cell phones make it even easier to take advantage of Twitter. Almost every student I see on campus with a smartphone uses Twitter to keep track of friends, celebrities, and anyone else worth a follow. It helps with staying updated on different current events and news in general.
The brevity of tweets may not be the best for those interested in more thorough reading, but many like the quickness of reading only 140 characters. It gets the point across right away without the fluff. I guess the only problem for me is that sometimes I don't want to know when my friends walk their dogs or decide to use the bathroom. I'm not really interested in the personal side of things.
All in all, Twitter is my key to everything and anything I would possibly want to read. In a couple of minutes, I'm aware of what's going on locally, nationally and throughout the world.
Twitter seems to be everywhere. Cell phones make it even easier to take advantage of Twitter. Almost every student I see on campus with a smartphone uses Twitter to keep track of friends, celebrities, and anyone else worth a follow. It helps with staying updated on different current events and news in general.
The brevity of tweets may not be the best for those interested in more thorough reading, but many like the quickness of reading only 140 characters. It gets the point across right away without the fluff. I guess the only problem for me is that sometimes I don't want to know when my friends walk their dogs or decide to use the bathroom. I'm not really interested in the personal side of things.
All in all, Twitter is my key to everything and anything I would possibly want to read. In a couple of minutes, I'm aware of what's going on locally, nationally and throughout the world.
Twitter allows users to post their thoughts--the thoughts they want others to know. With my phone, I can say I carry the thoughts of more than 400 people in my pocket, all because of Twitter. Whether or not that's considered a good or bad thing is up for debate, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons in my opinion.
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