Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Twitter




Twitter started out as a website designed to send updates quickly about your life and things you are doing in-between instant messaging and blogging. Blogging has been around for almost a ten years, blogs can consist of the wildest things ever witnessed or simply how the spaghetti you ate tasted like worms.

The problem is, people don’t always have a computer at their finger tips so blogs aren’t always in real time. Twitter started out as a small website in 2006 and since then it has become a huge social networking sites favored by many.

Even today, Twitter is expanding into our lives even if you do not use it. Just by browsing Verizon’s texting phones, most of their phones come with a pre installed Face book and Twitter app. Twitter has such an impact on people’s lives that companies are making pushes to make it a lot easier. But with success that twitter has brought to bloggers and followers, the social networking site can be used for bad.

Recently Robbers and hackers have turned to the networking giant to decide when its best to break in. By becoming a follower you receive all or most of the blogger's “tweets” and if you are able to learn their schedule Twitter can be abused.

twittergraph.pngAs you can see by this graph, twitter is followed by different followers. Building relationships are a big part of twitter. Just by looking at this graph you can see a few of the many ways twitter can be used to become and integral part of people’s lives.

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