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Twitter: is it worth the tweet?

 
How could a 140-character update lead to the anti-social world we live in today?

 
Beth Thorne

theguardian.com, Monday 13 October 2013

 
With over 100 million active users, Twitter has become one of the biggest social networking sites in the world. It enables people to post or “tweet” their thoughts and actions at that very moment, as well as following various celebrities to keep up to date with the latest in their life styles.

Accessibility to the site may be the cause of why Twitter is so popular. Signing up is an extremely easy process where anyone can sign up and start “tweeting” immediately, as well as following anyone who’s tweets catch your eye. Unlike Facebook, where you would have to wait for your friend to accept your friend request to contact them and access their page, you can just click follow and be updated by their tweets immediately. Twitter apps have also made it even easier to view your friend’s tweets by making the site accessible via mobile phone.

An article by S Johnson from TIME magazine has stated, “Why does the world need this?” and how he doesn’t understand how “alerting [people] about [their] choice of breakfast cereal” is amusing. Many people would agree with this as if “50% of these 100 million users log in everyday” and are writing about their choice of breakfast that morning, it could get quite boring in years to come.
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  1. Unknown15 October 2013 at 01:07

    Good tongue-in-cheek voice with a sophisticated edge and really good integration of information from the sources for the most part - if you are using a quote, readers need to know who said it (your last quote) and you need to evaluate how reliable the information is - I like the way you have used "if" to question it, so that works but do you include it at all?

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