Second Post

     When I researched Twitter as well as made a Twitter account I came across some pleasant surprises.  In the past I was never an avid Twitter user but after researching it and using it in a different way I now see many advantages it holds.  One of the articles I read about Twitter explained that Twitter is not about the number of followers that you have, but rather about how much you can value you can add to your followers.  I thought about what the author of the article meant and came up with this: it doesn't matter how many people see what you post, what matters is what you post.  For example, if you have 500 people following your Twitter but only posted status updates about how intoxicated you are this would not add value to any of your followers.  However, if you had twelve followers and posted a quote that inspired these people, you would have added value to their lives.  Overall, I learned that Twitter is not merely about who follows you, but it is about the quality and substance to the posts you create and the posts other people create.  After learning this, my opinion has changed and I now see that Twitter has many advantages.

     I think Twitter is useful for many different people.  Depending on who you follow the content you read will be very different.  For example, one person may follow a number of different Twitters all related to the weather, or someone else may follow Twitters that all relate to politics, or all relating to technology, or even characters on reality television shows.  Another advantage of Twitter is that users are able to pick and choose what content they read.  If someone wanted to learn about and stay up to date with recent advances in technology, following a number of Twitters speaking about technology would be very useful for this person.
     Twitter is different than blogging because on Twitter you create short status updates, whereas on blogs you are able to fully express yourself and completely explain a given subject.  Twitter status updates are limited to 140 characters and when creating a blog post there is no character limit.  This allows people reading blogs to devour a much greater amount of information compared to the information communicated through a Twitter status.  Due to this, Twitter is much different than blogs because it severely limits the amount of information you are able to communicate and in turn, the amount of information someone may learn.

*In case any of my readers wanted to read the article I mentioned in the first paragraph it is: http://blog.beethomas.com/what-is-the-purpose-of-twitter/