Twitter: Just 140 characters of Facebook
With whispers circulating about Twitter getting good, I thought I might investigate
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By Angelica King
Monday 14th October, 2013
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Twitter turns everyone into a bird brain begging to be followed. Photograph: www.sweetbenannasam.com
Why bother tweeting? That was my response to the so called growing social network. Lets face facts, twitter is just facebook stripped of everything but the status and applied a strict word count, allowing the world to unlearn how to spell and use non standard grammar that would make any english teacher want to tear their hair out (unless they’re already bald).
And I know that I’m not the only person who would agree with me, Steven Johnson said that the social site has made a “terrible first impression”. Twitter is the reason why the people around me consider “sry” an apology, think that all their “followers” are interested to know about what they are doing every minute of every single day in 140 characters and that #yolo is the perfect excuse as to why we should do stupid things continuously.
That leads me on to my next point, I don’t think I could ever forgive twitter for introducing #hashtags. They are unnecessary, unnatural, unsophisticated from the perspective of the english language. They’re also incredibly tacky.
I think we should just stick to facebook before all social networks become one. I think I’m about to use up my characters #cyalateralligator
Good use of some of the info - it is integrated well. You need to contextualise for the reader who you are quoting so that they can evaluate how reliable he is, unless you are darn sure everybody knows e.g. you would expect a Technology blog reader to know who Steve Jobs/Bill Gates is etc. Could you integrate more facts and quotes like the style model did?
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