I am an active tweep and do tweet every day. I tweet a little bit of quotations, thoughts and some interesting things. Even though I track my fellow tweeps’ tweets, I never realized the active participation of most of them till last week. Some of them tweet regularly and others will be idle for all the day. (Sometimes, I too belong to the idle group who just reads others’ tweets)
One day, I happened to see Burkha Dutt’s tweet on Hyderabad Air Crash# and did retweet it. It amazed me that suddenly people started asking me questions related to this incident as if am reporting from the accident spot. I waited for other authentic tweets to answer my fellow tweeps’ queries. Also the # tag helped me to track people who were tweeting on this particular incident. The period of diffusion of the news was unbelievable. I checked a few news website out of curiosity, but the tweet world was ahead of them with new updates. I realized the factor that, more than a status application, now it is being used as a first alert mechanism for the dissemination of news and for immediate discussion surrounding that news.
Next day it was nithyantha# ruled the twitter world. I just clicked on nithyantha# and it led me to whole lot information which will be difficult to collect in a limited period of time. People were retweeting the scandal with an urge to inform the world about such fake saints.
The twitter world amazes me a lot by its over growing popularity and people adapt it so quickly. When I was actually introduced to twitter by Ganesh, I found it as an arduous task to understand and recognize the features and functionalities of twitter. Now it has become the trend and other social sites were beaten by twitter because of its simplicity. There are plenty of desktop and mobile applications which will help you to tweet according to your choice. The interesting thing is that it won’t consume much of your time, also help you to develop your multi tasking ability :)
Actually what I wanted to share with you is that rapid dissemination is occurring through twitter these days. It has become a serious platform for discussion and news dissemination and it does get a great amount of coverage. I was just wondering why???
Why Twitter???
Quick: The information will reach you fast. Actually you can find most of the journalists, bloggers, writers and even big companies in twitter and they do maintain a twitter account and tweet actively and disseminate information. I am sure they are going to push twitter to mainstream soon.
Simple: the 140 characters make it simple as a text message. Tweet gives you the chance to listen to the news in context.
Easy: Twitter has smartly developed a large set of tools that help people use the service. This makes it easier for people to get content on Twitter in the manner most convenient and most comfortable to them.
Interactive: unlike any other medium it allows conversation. It does encourage feedback. Most of the political leaders and celebrities are interacting with people without any hesitation.
I would like to borrow Ruffini’s thoughts as my closing thought, “Twitter is built for the new news cycle. Traditional news operated on a 24-hour cycle. Blogs shortened this to minutes and hours. Twitter shortens it further to seconds," he writes. "It's not right for every piece of information. It's certainly not well suited for longer analysis. But when it comes to instantly assembling raw data from several sources that then go into fully baked news stories, nothing beats it." you might also like: Twitter Killed Jyoti Basu
