Journal #5 My Twitter Experience

Journal #5   My Twitter Experience

I had never used Twitter before GED 512 required us to do so, although I had known this social network for a long time. However, I had used another social network named “Wei Bo”. It’s also a social network similar to Twitter, and it’s very popular in China several years before. But in these two year, with the widely use of “Wei Xin”, a software like Fackbook, “Wei Bo” is fading out of it’s popularity. It looks like Twitter has the same fate, it’s market is eating by the other social networks like Facebook, Linkln.

I set up my Twitter account per the class requirement. I followed four twitters. One of them is Barack Obama, he has more than 65,000,000 followers, and ranking the fourth in the people with most followers. The number one is Katy Perry, she has more than 77,000,000 followers. I can easily get their update since I am their follower. 

And I also followed CNN, so It’s convenient for me to read the CNN news because they are listed in the twits,  and updated often. And I can also view the others’ comments about the news. Sometimes, I think the comments are more interesting than the news itself. Furthermore, I can also add my comment and can share the twit with others. So it’s not only reading the news, but also getting interactive with the others on the topic of the news. In this aspect, it’s interesting.

Like Facebook, Twitter can also be used in our cell phone, so it’s convenient to use. 

In total, I think Twitter can provide me some information and make me get updated in a easy way. But compared to Facebook, it’s not that attractive. So I would say I will not use it often.