Forgot to Cross-Post about Twitter!

CONS: Twitter posts can only give readers a glimpse of the whole picture. As Zaitchik puts it, you only get stick figure snapshots of situations, and nothing more. Trying to use twitter to grasp a whole issue can lead to limited understanding and it promotes single mindedness in our already shallow society.
Zaitchik also brings up a great point when he wrote that twitter our culture even further into a state of “autism” that breeds limited attention spans and skimming content.
I also consider the parodied line in Currents post “it’s like being with your friends at all times.” Twitter has provided us with another way for us to connect with the ones we love from anywhere in the world.


PROS: The list of eight things really presented some aspects of twitter that I’d never considered. I agree that in the PR field twitter can help companies directly connect with their audience and answer their questions in real time.
Twitter also helps give news agencies another way of connecting their media to their audiences. The way that twitter helps companies can also be applied to the way that twitter can help me get a job in the marketplace today.
I think that as a PR major it is easy for me to only see the positives of a social media tool like twitter. Today it is all about companies trying to promote themselves in as few words as possible and twitter is the perfect platform to practice this on.

I agree that twitter does promote a certain type of shallowness, but I am also fascinated with it as a platform for media. I think that in a few years we will be using a similar type of platform, but with half as many characters. Twitter is the ultimate in our less is more culture.

I recently tweeted about a type of wine that I was drinking, a friend saw that tweet and wrote me a facebook message about her favorite wine, which ended up with the two of us meeting up downtown for drinks on a Saturday.


This helped me relate more to twitter visually

Great Article on Blogging/Twitter