The success of a website relies heavily on the various methods used to grab the user’s attention. As a member of the online community I would only visit a website periodically if it captures my attention. One website in particular that I feel accomplishes this is Twitter. If you aren’t familiar with it, I consider it a social virtual world, because it’s a computer-simulated environment supporting simultaneous communication with members of the website represented by avatars (Holmstrom & Jakobsson, 2001; Jakobsson, 2006).
Twitter is a platform that can be accessed on your computer or mobile device. The members of Twitter can share news, their thoughts, jokes, comments, and information in 140 characters of text or less (Smith, 2012). It’s …show more content…
There are some ads that occasionally appear, but you have the option of dismissing the ad and removing that specific ad from your feed. In my case, I mostly only follow people that I know and my favorite artists. Therefore, the content that appears on my feed is relevant to my life. It contains comments of what my friends are thinking, which I like because it helps me see how relatable certain thoughts could be or even how opposed. It gives me an insight to the online character that my friends portray, something that I feel could affect the face-to-face interaction between my friends and I. For example, if I see that they are behaving in a racist or even sexist manner online I would probably not want to continue being friends with that person, because it shows you their morals and values. In addition, one thing that might be my favorite aspect of Twitter is that I can speak my mind. I’m the type of person who has thoughts constantly flowing in my mind. I’m too lethargic to grab a notebook and pencil each time I think of something relevant to my life, so I just open my phone and tweet it instead. During a developer event in San Francisco on October 2015 Twitter’s CEO, Dorsey said, “Twitter stands for freedom of expression, and will not rest until that is recognized as a fundamental human right.” This allows the platform to be more engaged with complex geopolitical …show more content…
You can send them a direct message, reply to a tweet, or simply like/re-tweet (re-post) their tweets. It makes interacting with other users a breeze. According to an article that I recently read, hashtags are an effective method to discover substance related to precise topics, as well as the people generating a buzz in regards to those topics (Murtagh, 2013). I agree with this statement because the hashtags (#) help keep related tweets together if you click on the hashtag. Hashtag’s are also used so that twitter can calculate what topics are trending in your area. This is a fine feature that keeps the Twitter community together and informed. Hashtags also gives Twitter the opportunity to apply itself in other virtual worlds. Virtual worlds like Facebook and Instagram also have incorporated hashtags into their websites. Twitter also allows you to connect (link) your tweets to other virtual worlds. For example if you connect it to your Facebook anything you tweet will be shared to your Facebook instantaneously. This feature allows companies and members like myself to save time on having to work on our presence on social media (Duron,
Twitter is a platform that can be accessed on your computer or mobile device. The members of Twitter can share news, their thoughts, jokes, comments, and information in 140 characters of text or less (Smith, 2012). It’s …show more content…
There are some ads that occasionally appear, but you have the option of dismissing the ad and removing that specific ad from your feed. In my case, I mostly only follow people that I know and my favorite artists. Therefore, the content that appears on my feed is relevant to my life. It contains comments of what my friends are thinking, which I like because it helps me see how relatable certain thoughts could be or even how opposed. It gives me an insight to the online character that my friends portray, something that I feel could affect the face-to-face interaction between my friends and I. For example, if I see that they are behaving in a racist or even sexist manner online I would probably not want to continue being friends with that person, because it shows you their morals and values. In addition, one thing that might be my favorite aspect of Twitter is that I can speak my mind. I’m the type of person who has thoughts constantly flowing in my mind. I’m too lethargic to grab a notebook and pencil each time I think of something relevant to my life, so I just open my phone and tweet it instead. During a developer event in San Francisco on October 2015 Twitter’s CEO, Dorsey said, “Twitter stands for freedom of expression, and will not rest until that is recognized as a fundamental human right.” This allows the platform to be more engaged with complex geopolitical …show more content…
You can send them a direct message, reply to a tweet, or simply like/re-tweet (re-post) their tweets. It makes interacting with other users a breeze. According to an article that I recently read, hashtags are an effective method to discover substance related to precise topics, as well as the people generating a buzz in regards to those topics (Murtagh, 2013). I agree with this statement because the hashtags (#) help keep related tweets together if you click on the hashtag. Hashtag’s are also used so that twitter can calculate what topics are trending in your area. This is a fine feature that keeps the Twitter community together and informed. Hashtags also gives Twitter the opportunity to apply itself in other virtual worlds. Virtual worlds like Facebook and Instagram also have incorporated hashtags into their websites. Twitter also allows you to connect (link) your tweets to other virtual worlds. For example if you connect it to your Facebook anything you tweet will be shared to your Facebook instantaneously. This feature allows companies and members like myself to save time on having to work on our presence on social media (Duron,