What can I say? This growing world of connectivity in every aspect of its word has created a vast increase in the leak of information available to us as an individual. We cannot begin to understand how much data is uploaded everyday into the web in order for us as users to be able to read, share and review the different qualitative and quantitive values that we have been able to get our hooks on, being able to learn and develop ourselves intellectually and physically as you can get everything you want to know on it.

Twitter is one of the forms of information sharing that many web users and companies have learned to use in order to send out their information quickly and received short and quickly in a one in all method of different sources. With Twitter it has given people the opportunity to bulk up information from a bunch of different social figures, newspapers, intellectuals, gamers, athletes, chefs etc. there is a vast amount of information that has been given by the network, where you just have to be following the group in order to be informed by them. It is a package of a vast variety of different websites and groups that you can just follow and you will receive all the information you would want in one online software.

All these microblogging and social networking websites are all based on a double-edged sword basis. These companies and websites have created the amazing opportunity of unbiased and immense amount of different information for everything you want. You can become and expert on almost anything and be constantly updated everyday about everything that happens around the world. You get various amounts of information of different bias opinions for different types of news in order to get yourself the most unbiased conclusion for yourself, it enables the elimination of censorship on almost all types of information. There will always be some sort of filtering, but in short, the amount ultimately given to you is drastically reduced, given that you are researching from various sources; twitter makes it much easier as well to follow these kinds of information.

The downside of these inadequate factors is the abusive privacy invasion in our new world era. There is so much hacking produced through the web, that if your good enough, you can access almost anyone on the web. Also social behavior between people through social networking and online communication has hindered a vast majority of the population of how to communicate themselves properly in real life. The quantity of people hiding behind their screens not even communicating face to face is unimaginable and it scares me to know that so many of us do not even have the courage anymore to talk to people in that manner.

Twitter just like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube or any other social network, has helped us communicate globally our ideas and made it easier for people to share information, and expose themselves to the rest of world. The point where you have to be able to draw the line is the abuse of these networks and control yourself to use the web and these contents of information to your benefit and not give up your life on the web with them or abusing other users through the web. Consideration and moderation has to be the core ideologies, do not overdo the monsters.


Christopher Tombrink

Twitter http://twitter.com/
that growing social network of 1 liners on user's lives (whether you want to know or not!!) With celebrities such as Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher having an extremely public life online with their twitter diatribe between each other or Lilly Allen tweeting that shes giving up touring (thank goodness i hear you say!)Britney Spears twittering about her child being sick (i mean do we really need to know all this!) and is it really them tweeting? With the explosion of social media so too the explosion of weird and wonderful social media jobs. Britney Spears tweeter anybody? !!
Though of course there should be some kind of rule book or social etiquete to follow as i have learned, the new friend that tweets to you 20 times a day is more often than not going to seriously annoy rather than be a pleasurable experience.! A tweet a day people! than if a twitter convo. starts great but please don't keep tweeting all day and all night especially when you have nothing to say! (you know who you are mr joke a minite!!) Though its so very easy to unfollow somebody just as it is easy to follow them.
Once you get used to the limit of 140 charecters within your tweet you realise that life becomes faster, shorter, sweeter. I have been keeping upto date on all things election via Twitter and gauging what others think about anything at all really.

Janine Chave :)

Welcome to the Twitter world

Maybe is just me, but what is happening nowadays is something really strange for me.
We are living in really weird age of the time, an age where real life and social-communication networks are mixing together; always more people subscribe day by day in different social network as facebook or microblog as Twitter, and what is really happening is that people start a new life on the web, creating a profile and starting making friends and interacting with them, sharing discussions and communicate all day long, asking questions and even working.

My general opinion about this all world of social networks and interactive communication is a double face opinion; on one side I found it as an incredible opportunity and on the other side I just see it as a threat.

People in all the world is getting near to eachothers and more social active thanks to web communication, they are receiving and sending informations all the time, gaining knowledge and more social responsible. On the other hand, that I think is more important, they are creating their virtual reality, forgetting about the real life, and so you start seeing young generation all day in front of computer chatting and surfing the web, spending hours watching a screen and forgetting about the real world out of their home’s wall, where they really learn about life, and they interact face to face with people.

What i’m saing is that people sholud really think carefully about the social network use; is a big weapon if there is a smart and responsible mind behind.
The problem is not about Facebook, Twitter or other blog but just of the people’s use, people have to become more aware about the web communication, I ll continue looking at it as an incredible opportunity for a prosperous future of the human beings.

Gregorio Marangon

MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN TWITTER:

My first impression of Twitter is that its really easy to use, when you are subscribing you’re followed step by step by the introduction program , which explain perfectly what you can do on this platform: how to follow the arguments in which you’re interested (dived in different categories), how to find your friends.
When you twitter account is active, you are on your profile and you can choose to follow someone or something.
If I had understand the way it works its more or less like this: when you send a message (Tweet), the notification of your Tweet is sent to your followers page. The followers who received the tweet have two options: they can answer to your message or they can share it with their followers (Retweet)
You have a settings page, where you can change the settings of your tweets, profile, template ecc.. there is also a tool for use twitter on your mobile!

Lorenzo,