- Twitter was founded in San Fransisco, California, United States.
- The founders of Twitter are Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone.
- Twitter was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.
- The first post on Twitter not from Earth was by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer from the International Space Station on January 22, 2010.
- Take a break after tweeting for extended amounts of time. Go outside, take a walk.
- Should you come across inappropriate content while tweeting/surfing the Internet, close your browser and tell your parents/guardian.
- Be careful about advertisements as they are may be lies and might cause your computer to get infected by viruses.
- Never ever post personal information on twitter. It's like bait for stalkers.
- One of the main dangers of Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot is that if you post personal information about yourself, you may get stalked.
- Another danger of twitter is the freedom of speech given to the users. They can post content that may be inappropriate for children.
- Beware of becoming addicted to Twitter, it is quite easy to get addicted to causing you to forget about your assignments, work and responsibilities.
- Cyber-bullying is a significant danger to users of Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot. It can make you feel sad or depressed about yourself.
- While there are people who post inappropriate content on Twitter, there are also those who motivate their followers to do their best, feel good and/or stay healthy.
- Twitter can be used to follow your favorite band/singers to catch their latest songs and find out about what they do everyday.
- Twitter can also be used to fond out what's happening around the world be following news channels.
- You can use Twitter to fight for what is right, such as saving the environment and animal rights.
An example about good use of twitter is how @statesman covered last week’s terrorist attack in Austin, Texas.
I almost didn’t blog about this. The attack occurred last Thursday as I was winding down work at Gazette Communications and preparing to move out to Arlington, Va., to start my new job. I took quick note on Twitter and might have let it pass. But it was a great example of community engagement and that’s my new job, so I decided I had to take the time to analyze the performance of @statesman Social Media Editor Robert Quigley in engaging his community through that breaking story. I’m writing about this several days after the fact because this is the best example I have seen of a media organization showing how Twitter can be a powerful tool for coverage of a breaking story.
My previous posts on the value of Twitter in breaking news have shown how citizens using Twitter provided a much better, faster account of breaking stories than professional media organizations did. I am pleased to show such an excellent, if belated, example of a professional news organization showing the potential for engaging through Twitter in a breaking story. (I should note that University of Texas student Douglas Luippold beat me to this.)
After I read through Quigley’s coverage, I emailed him some questions. I’ll intersperse his answers with my observations, presented as a strategy for a news organization using Twitter to cover breaking news:
