TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET IS TWITTER RIGHT FOR
September 1st, 2009 | 
Author: TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET IS TWITTER RIGHT FOR YOU
TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET IS TWITTER RIGHT FOR YOU
First it was Instant Messaging then Blogging and the rise of Social Networks and now the latest craze to hit cyberspace is Twitter a realtime micromessaging service that allows people to instantly communicate with a group individuals who choose to follow for any number of reasons their thoughts or activities.
Twitter is the brainchild of author Jack Dorsey Jack and although its only been around in its current form since 2006 Dorsey and cofounders Evan Williams and Biz Stones simple application is on target according to Neislen.com to be the mostrapidly growing Member Community phenomenons for the foreseeable future.
Drawing from the Short Message Service SMS platform Twitter allows people to post tweets little bursts of textbased content that communicates status updates and on occasion pearls of wisdom to a network of followers on the Twitter website and the subsequently SMS devices and other external applications. Due to size limitations dictated by SMS devices most basic cell phones were constrained to160 characters before a short message was split Dorsey choose to limit a tweet to 140 characters leaving 20 characters for the user name. Best of all Twitter is currently a free service and all indications are that it will remain that way.
The ubiquitousness of cell phone capable of receiving SMS has fueled Twitters remarkable growth.. But a study published on the Harvard Business Publishing website June 1 2009 presents a fascinating set of conclusions. Examining a random sampling of 300000 Twitter users the survey found that a small percentage 10 account for the majority of tweets 90. The suggestion here is that Twitter is more of a oneway or onetomany communication network as opposed to a peertopeer social network. Also the survey concluded that more men follow tweets posted by other men than tweets posted by women. There is a certain reverse voyeurism implied by this conclusion than can be explained by the fact that Twitter is a textbased application no photos allowed. The survey also concluded that more women than men have signed up on Twitter.
- If you are willing to tweet rather than follow answer one simple question what are you doing and see what happens.
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