I personally have one account on Twitter; and twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read message. It enables you to write brief text or message updates about your personal interest or daily experience with your life. According to Java, Finin, Song & Tseng (2007) stated that, Twitter provides a light-weight, easy form of communication that enables users to broadcast and share information about their activities, opinions and status, which is one of the popular microblogging platforms. Moreover, it also provides instant messaging (IM) tool which includes Gtalk, Yahoo, and MSN that have features allowing its users to share their current status with friends on their buddy lists.
Besides that, Twitter enables easy sharing status messages whether publicly or within a social network. This can be seen as our Malaysia politicians have been actively tweeting such as Lim Kit Siang, Tengku Razeleigh Hamzah, Anwar Ibrahim and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Hence, the updates or posts are made by succinctly describing one’s current status within a limit of 140 characters. Twitter’s emphasis on short status updates often on personal journals has made it more attractive. Moreover, Twitter has been designed specifically for 3G mobile users as it enables the user to send short postings (Zahiid 2010).
According to Walsh (2006) stated that, the layout of the home page consist of several framed sections, with links to other pages, which are each designed to engage us to not just learn about Twitter, but to become one of the members. Whereby, Schriver (1997) mention that, where text and images complement each other so as to catch the audience’s attention and understanding. For example, the users are able to add or search for new friends, and is also able to keep in touch with their friends overseas with just a click on the mouse. Moreover, it enables its users to add in any application of their choice.
Twitter has changed the way of providing few benefits from Twitter such as the research tool which allows us to tap into a community of people from around the world to find out about their culture and experiences while collaborating and networking in the interacting opportunities with amazingly talented, smart and insightful people on Twitter (Rowse 2008). However, Twitter is very attractive as it is constantly updated by people's thoughts, experiences and opinions about a particular issue, and the best way for the government to connect with the voters instantly, not like other media or televisions and newspapers (Zahiid 2010). As for blogs which are still very important, as it can gives you indept information as compared to Twitter's short messages which may lead to misunderstanding and confusion regarding the information.
References:
Java, A., Finin, T., Song, X., & Tseng, B., 2007, “Why we Twitter: Understanding microblogging usage and communities”, USA.
Rowse, D., 2008, 5 ways I benefit from Twitter, Twitip, viewed on 13 June 2010.
Schriver, K,A., 1997, Chapter 6: Dynamics in document design: Creating texts for readers, New York, pp.361-44.
Walsh, M 2006, “The ‘textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts”, Australian Journal of language Literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp.24-37.
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