Mike Rooney

Twitter Critical Analysis

            Twitter is a social media site that connects users through a network of real time stories, ideas and opinions. In Twitter, you can share photos, videos and conversations. You can “tweet” your opinion, interests and ideas and have people comment and discuss the topic. Also, Twitter is used for following people, where you can see and comment on their tweets, however, you never have to tweet at all if you don’t want to. Twitter can be used for many purposes besides social media purposes.

            Twitter can be used for business purposes as well. Twitter can connect the businesses to their customers and vice versa. By tweeting, posting videos or photos, a business can quickly and easily show their customers new products. Relationships can be built stronger by using Twitter to communicate between the customers and businesses. Twitter is also bad for businesses too. The audience a business might want to reach might not be invested in social media, so Twitter isn’t a good way to connect businesses with their customers. Also, since it’s done over the Internet, there is a little bit of a lag between businesses and customers. Over the phone, of in person is way quicker and you can communicate more efficiently. Twitter provides good purposes and applications for businesses and it has some drawbacks to the businesses as well.

            Twitter is mainly used for social purposes. People can connect with one another from all around the world by tweeting and following. People are able to discuss topics and interests and just a conversation. Photos and videos are also shared between users. Twitter connects people from around the world and people down the street. Twitter helps engage people within their community and gives them a voice. The negative side to the social part of Twitter is that anyone can reach and comment on your tweets.

            Twitter also provides entertainment purposes. It allows entertainers to send out tweets that will promote what they are doing, and what might appeal to some people on this website. The downside is that entertainers can’t reach every audience member because not everyone has a Twitter.  

            Twitter also has news purposes to it too. People can tweet about new things and headlines that are taking place in real time. This allows people to stay informed about what’s happening in their community and globally.

            Purposes for recreational uses are used on Twitter as well. This allows you to follow certain businesses that you like. People can follow other people, celebrities and companies on their own time to stay informed in what’s going on. The downside is that there aren’t much recreational purposes besides following your friends.

            These advantages on Twitter can be abused too. Socially, you can stalk people if you get to attached and obsessed. In the business perspective, something you might tweet can get you in trouble at work if it’s about the business. For entertainment, they could continuously send out information over and over to promote themselves. For news, some topics that come up could be offensive to some people. As consequences, you can get in trouble outside the website.

I got my information from Twitter.com