Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
Twitter was created in March 2006 and rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6billion search queries per day.
Twitter is the preferred social media site for many, including celebrities, who want to share SMS-type messages with a multitude of people worldwide.
However, whatever its original intended function and purpose, Twitter is becoming much more than just a site where individuals share trivial daily thoughts. Twitter is fast becoming many people's main source of news and updates of major global events.
https://blog.twitter.com/2008/twitter-news-wire
Because of the rate at which people across the world tweet and share information, it is very often the first place news is discovered, before most people get the chance to pick up a newspaper or turn on the television, they have already had 'x' amount of updates that can now even be accessed on the go on a phone- making it even quicker and easier to get information.
Twitter is not only useful for news and entertainment purposes, but also can be used as part of research. Whilst in class, we were shown how to complete searches to find recently tweeted or trending information related to what we were researching, such as "women's rights", and then you can follow pages and link them to your news feed on Tweet deck.
This can be a really useful tool for finding information, it comes to your direct, and it can be very quick and convenient. It is making use of one of the most popular social networking sites for academic purposes, and so is a new and modern way of researching.
However, for the average person, and including myself, it can be confusing to set up and start the searches, and then save them, and follow them, and link them, and and and.... etc! I think this is something that perhaps puts off a lot of people from using this method- if it seems to hard, or you aren't sure what to do, there's always Google!
http://www.russellwebster.com/qualitativeresearch-using-social-media-for-social-research/
The author of this blog discusses using Twitter actually as part of social research, as a modern alternative to questionnaires or surveys, for example, as the character limit on tweets prevents answers being too long but allows for some more meaning and information. I found this to be a really interesting concept, to combine two things together in such a way that could provide interesting results.
Twitter was created in March 2006 and rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6billion search queries per day.
Twitter is the preferred social media site for many, including celebrities, who want to share SMS-type messages with a multitude of people worldwide.
However, whatever its original intended function and purpose, Twitter is becoming much more than just a site where individuals share trivial daily thoughts. Twitter is fast becoming many people's main source of news and updates of major global events.
https://blog.twitter.com/2008/twitter-news-wire
Because of the rate at which people across the world tweet and share information, it is very often the first place news is discovered, before most people get the chance to pick up a newspaper or turn on the television, they have already had 'x' amount of updates that can now even be accessed on the go on a phone- making it even quicker and easier to get information.
Twitter is not only useful for news and entertainment purposes, but also can be used as part of research. Whilst in class, we were shown how to complete searches to find recently tweeted or trending information related to what we were researching, such as "women's rights", and then you can follow pages and link them to your news feed on Tweet deck.
This can be a really useful tool for finding information, it comes to your direct, and it can be very quick and convenient. It is making use of one of the most popular social networking sites for academic purposes, and so is a new and modern way of researching.
However, for the average person, and including myself, it can be confusing to set up and start the searches, and then save them, and follow them, and link them, and and and.... etc! I think this is something that perhaps puts off a lot of people from using this method- if it seems to hard, or you aren't sure what to do, there's always Google!
http://www.russellwebster.com/qualitativeresearch-using-social-media-for-social-research/
The author of this blog discusses using Twitter actually as part of social research, as a modern alternative to questionnaires or surveys, for example, as the character limit on tweets prevents answers being too long but allows for some more meaning and information. I found this to be a really interesting concept, to combine two things together in such a way that could provide interesting results.
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