Twitter: Does It Have Value?

Twitter has over 300 million users. It’s one of those platforms were celebrities can directly talk to their fans. It’s a way for people to communicate with each other. While it is a great way for people to socialize it's also used for other things.

Marketing is one of the other uses people use twitter for. 

There are many companies that have twitter accounts and have millions of followers. Some of these companies are “Wendy’s”, Burger King” and “UPS”. These companies seem to be effective twitter. Wendy’s posted a picture of the Burger King guy and tweeted “look who stop by to see what spicy nuggets are supposed to taste like”. That a marketing strategy, people on twitter find that funny and will fallow Wendy’s giving Wendy’s the opportunity to market to them.

Twitter also can be useful for political leaders and journalists. While fallowing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter she has been outspoken about the current admiration handling of the pandemic happening now because of the coronavirus. She uses Twitter as a way for her to voice her frustration and communicate with her fallows. AOC also relies on tweets to her from fallowers. There is also an election coming up for the president of the united states and many of the presidential candidate’s constituents often tweet on twitter about their candidates’ vision they have for the United States. The presidential candidate themselves also tweet about their vision. Twitter also gives journalists and an easy way to give quick updates on the news they just obtained. Many Journalists on twitter have may followers who want to be updated on current events. 

Seeing who there are so many people on twitter it’s important to know that a lot of times there is a failure in the use of it. The time Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash. It was all over twitter and most people got the one thing right when the story broke, which was Bryant being in a helicopter crash. That was it and as time went on there were people tweeting roomers of things that weren’t factual. There were tweets being retweeted saying that Kobe Bryant’s whole family was in the helicopter. Of course, that turns out not to be true. According to Matt Roller, he says “Twitter does its best work in the first five minutes after a disaster and its worst in the twelve hours after that”. 

When the tornados happened in Tennessee Twitter was effective in showing the destruction and the aftermath while showing and telling the need Tennessee still has at this time. The hashtags made it easy for people to look up and offer assistance.  

Another event that got a lot of attention to Twitter was when the president of the United States authorized the killing of a general of Iran. after the news broke on twitter it was trending world war 3. It wasn’t clear if that situation was going to start a world war, it was just at the time it certainly was not a correct thing to be floating around. Image a legitimate news source putting that out there and it wasn’t actually the fact. 

Fallowing people who are political leaders really gives you an insight into what’s happening in the world of politics. While there are many people who talk about politics on twitter following actual representatives give you factual information, at least for the most part. Since there is a limit to how many characters, they can use they have to get right to the point. Since some political leaders have a lot to say they will begin tweeting and once they can’t write anymore, they will continue their thought in another tweet after that. Donald Trump has done this a few times.

Tweeting may different at first but as time goes on it will flow. Whatever a pers

on feels, they need to share they have the ability to do that.

Since Twitter has over 300 million users it’s going to have some good while also having a little bad. Think about the United States, the country has over 300 million people have all of them behaving in a certain way is unrealistic. There will be a few peas in the pot. Although it is a good way for a journalist to give important updates. For celebrities and political leaders to interact with the public, for business to market. For the casual person to communicate, while also being a platform where people can organize for a good cause.