How Did Twitter Change Society

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The Invention of Twitter

The invention of twitter has drastically changed todays society. Twitter has drastically changed the social landscape of American society, bringing together celebrities and the middle class and opening new arenas for social discussion. Social Media in general has as well, but twitter itself has a big outlook on society. Twitter is only one of many social media sites that impact the nation but it is one of the most used and known. With twitter being more user friendly, people of all ages are able to use it. Twitter is forever changing the interface of social media.

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Because of Twitter people were less afraid to express themselves. On the new invented social media site people were free to say whatever they wanted to whatever audience they wanted. If they wanted everyone to see it they would have a public page but if they wanted only people the knew to see it they would have a private page where they regulate who follows them and sees their information. The only restriction there is to twitter is the 140 character count, meaning that you can tweet or post whatever you want as long as it does not exceed 140 characters. People were also becoming more aware of the differences in people because of the diverse cultures of people joining the twitter community. Along with the positive effects of twitter, there was always a negative. The negative outcome of twitter was the increase of bullying on social media (Gottschalk, Christopher.). Cyber bullying was on the upraise with the invention of twitter. More and more people had twitters causing the bully to have easy access to the victim. Cyber bullying has always been a problem since the invention of the internet and online communications but since more and more social media sites, such as twitter, are being created it has drastically increased the number of cyberbullying cases …show more content…
There are many growing issues coming along with social media. With recent terrorist attacks, on other countries as well as our own, twitter has been commonly used to reach out to members of the website to potentially become members of the attack groups. The terrorist also reach out to people in the cities that they plan to attack in order to know someone to be able to get into the city unknown and unsuspected. Cyberbullying is one of the most common dangers of social media such as twitter. Cyberbullying is an issue that has been around for a while now and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better ("Introduction to What Is the Impact of Twitter?). Cyberbullying occurs when the bullies attacks the victims through social media instead of face to face. This form of bullying is more common then face to face bullying. The dangers such as these from social media are few reasons that some parents don’t allow their children to enroll in social media sites such as twitter. Along with the dangers of twitter come many positive long term effects of the site as well. Many social media sites are used to keep in touch with old friends or family members living in different states. This is a long term positive effect because no matter how long you have a twitter account you will always be able to

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