Kevin Simmons 10/22/13
Mr. Hennings
The
Good and Bad of Twitter
When
Twitter was first created in 2006, it did not catch on with the media trends.
Now Twitter is one of the most used social networks in the media. Twitter
allows someone with an account to make status updates about what they’re doing,
read what they’re friends are doing, and see what is trending throughout the
world. There are currently 554,750,000 million active users on Twitter. Twitter
has many different uses although people need to be careful with what they
tweet.
Businesses
can use Twitter for many different uses. One thing businesses use Twitter for
is to advertise their business. Businesses can pay for their Twitter account to
show up on someone’s timeline or the business can pay to get their business on
the top trending list so the whole world can view the business. Although
Twitter can help a business it can also hurt a business because it is such a
largely used network. Good news surrounding
a business will spread fast on Twitter helping a business but, the bad news can
also spread faster than they would without social networks. The bad news
spreading fast can hurt or ruin a company’s reputation.
Twitter
has also impact social life tremendously. There are currently 554,750,000
people on Twitter. People have friends and idols on Twitter. Such idols include
athletes, actors, and any other celebrities. The good thing is most people can
communicate with friends or anyone in the world that has a Twitter. The bad
thing is anything you say cannot be taken back. People have been arrested
because of what they put on Twitter and athletes have been fined by their
league commissioner. Twitter uses who see their role model tweet or act a
certain way on Twitter are more likely to act like that so these celebrities that
use Twitter need to keep in mind what the repercussions are for their tweet.
Twitter
also has an impact on the entertainment industry. Twitter allows users to
interact with their favorite actors and celebrities. Celebrities can advertise
their movies and they can tell people were they will be. This will allow for
free publicity for the celebrities that want to put information out in the
public. This publicity good be good or bad. This means Twitter could help or hurt
the entertainment industry.
The Twitter account @BreakingNews
is a Twitter account with over 6 million followers. Whenever this account tweets
breaking news over 6 million people will be able to read it within seconds. This
allows big news stories to be spread faster than it would be without Twitter. Although
the downside to this is the news could be inaccurate. If the news is inaccurate
people may make rash decisions that affect their daily life.]
People
can use Twitter for recreational uses. People can find it fun to interact with
different people they would not normally interact with off of Twitter. An abuse
of this could be stalking another person. By stalking someone on Twitter
someone could get arrested if they threaten another person.
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