Hi, everyone š Yale is back here !!
Today I would like to talk about Twitter and online the blogsphere and social media. I think most of you guys already have Twitter account, so do I š
Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages calledtweets. People can posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user’s profile page.
Do you know how Twitter made ? Twitter was produced in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launced in July. Since then Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 65million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queires per day. Also, it is described a the “SMS of the Internet”.Ā
I dare to say, the most of people are using Twitter in these days and I feel like Twitter is another version of Facebook. As increase using of smart phone, Twitter is more and more becoming popular to the world. All of sudden, when I search about blogosphere, I found some funny question which is “Is social media killing the blogosphere?” and it gets repeated all the time on the Internet. Why this question gets repeated all the time on the Internet? Anyone have idea???
Let’s change topic here, about launching your own blog. In my opinion, if you do not have your own blog yet, I recommened you to open an account new blog and Twitter, too. Jason Calacnais, who so publicly “retired” from blogging said that the blogoshpere had become too impersonal and “lacks the intimacy” that drew him to it. Moreover probably a valid opinion, but it is also a statement of his personal taste. If your only purpose to being online is to occasionally publish random pieces of your life, then social media is great. If you do not ever want to offer anything of any length to the Internet, then social media sites are fine. If your purpose is to make “friends”, then social media sites are great to you.
Social media sites are great, and they should be used by anybody with any form of Internet presence. The blogosphere is not dying because of these things. On the contrary, it is evolving and, in some ways, getting better. A blogger can put their digital tentacles our across the Internet so much easier today- because of social media. In fact, a blogger who is actively engaged in social media often has an advantage over some of the larger media conglomerates. The importance of social media and social proof is increasing every day online.
This is end of my blog š Hope everyone enjoy and please share your opinion here ~ ^.^ Thank you and have a great day !!!
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i’m glad you are so positive towards social media, you must have been a great fan of twitter and facebook arent you? ha!
well, i believe that the popularity of social media arises because of it’s ‘social’ nature, not only do you feel connected to your friends anywhere everywhere, you get to meet new people or even reconnect with your long lost friends (primary school, old neighbours etc.). it feels good when you know you ave got friends, like, you know you are not alone in this world!
oh, and, referring to your question in your blog – the big debate over ‘social media killing blogosphere’, it’s the common ‘misconception’ or argument that twitter, facebook and other social media sites are the direct cause of the declining popularity of the once most-popular internet activity, blogging. I personally feel that the falling population of “blogosphere” is not at all surprising, blogging has become so common and contents/styles are starting to get repetitive, people vying for attention and dreamt of being some kinda blog-star. everything gets so boring after some time when everyone is doing the same thing. Moreover, the internet generation are use to and embrace (in one way or another) the “new” replacing “old” theory – cable broadband (soon it’ll be fibre optic) replacing dial-up, online news replacing traditional papers, and well, facebook replacing friendster. it’s nothing wrong being fond of ‘new’ things even so.