Twitter Media
Twitter is a media that is very prominent in today's world. It is all over the news and can find various different information spanning from politics, daily news, games, movies, and anything other type of things people want to post about. It has been growing in popularity since it first got created in 2006 and can be considered one of the biggest social media platforms today.
Twitters does have an expansive history filled with interesting facts in my mind. Before 2006 the creators Jack Dorsey, Even Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass got together to work on creating a social media platform. By the time 2006 came along, they were able to successfully create twitter and the first tweet was made by Dorsey. That tweet said "just setting up my twttr.". The reason why he said twttr is because it was originally going to be spelt that way but it was changed to be twitter. And when thinking of a name they were thinking of a few thoughts that helped them create the name. The light chirping sounding word, A word that's light and tremulous speech or laughter, and Agitation and excitement. Before it was released, Dorsey also thought that twitter should be a platform where people can give status updates with friends and update them on what’s going on in their life. That it would have a similar set up to text messages but at the same time being very different.
Like I stated earlier, Twitter is very prominent in today's world. I would even say that is one of the most important sources of information in our modern world. People from any background and from all over the world use Twitter. Though usually when it enters into the main stream news, it usually is seen in a political sense. For example when President Trump got banned from Twitter near the end of his presidency, it turned into a huge political problem for a while when that happened. And though Twitter has every right to ban those who break there terms of service due to its community guild lines and how it runs, it doesn't mean that people will have their own opinions on the matter.
Twitter has changed the way that people can communicate because it can be fast and easy to get simple ideas out there for the world to see. If people want to reach out to someone in specific on the app, they can @ someone. And interesting enough Twitter was the first social media platform to use that along side the # for trends. Though it has had a very prominent way of influencing communication in the world, it can also be used by groups and people that want to spread either false information, hate speech, and also be used to ruin peoples reputation. Twitter, a platform of wide information from many different viewpoints are bound to have speech that degrading and hurtful in nature just like most social media platforms. But despite all the hate that can be on the platform, it can be used for good.
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