Our professor gave us an assignment to look up two artiicles/blogs about social networking and research and write a blog based off it. When looking up this assignment I thought it was going to be difficult to write about but its was actually quite interesting. The first article I came upon was fromt he New York Times. The articles is titled " Twitter Shows its Rude Side". I knew this article would trigger the audience due to the fact that twitter is so popular these days. In this article, former president Bill Clinton appeared on Stephen Colbert’s television show in early April. Mr. Colbert said to the Mr. Clinton that he was suprised he didnt have a twitter account. Bill Clinton then said that the reason for him not having a twitter account is because he was " sort of insecure". After Mr. Colbert set up an account (@PrezBillyJeff) and had the former president dictate his first tweet to him. Mr. Clinton added that he was worried he would have no followers. Needless to say after an hour after the show was casted, the former president had up to 20,000 followers. That is the story, the man writing the article then states his point of the article by stating, "if a household name capable of instantly drawing a crowd is concerned about looking like a loser on Twitter, think of the burden felt by the average Joe. In a milieu rife with self-promotion and self-branding, the inevitable byproduct is insecurity. Insecurity is to bad manners as boat travel is to nausea. " I have to agree with this statement. What is your opinion?
The other article I choice to write about is also based on twitter. This article is from the Los Angeles Times and is titled "BUSINESS BRIEFING : SOCIAL NETWORKING : Twitter sees 8% drop in U.S. users". This article is based on the decrease of users on twitter and how they are mostly decreased by U.S. citizens. the article states, "The number of Americans using Twitter dropped 8% in October from September, marking the second monthly decline for the social-networking site this year, according to research firm ComScore Inc.
Twitter Inc., the No. 3 social-networking site in the U.S., had 19.2 million users in October, ComScore said. The company had growth of less than 1% in September and declined in August. October's number was still up more than 13-fold from the year-earlier period." I believe that to be crazy in one month 8% decresed in twitter users. The article also states that during that time Facebook users increased 2%. Even though some people including myself have drifted from facebook, I guess facebook is still standing strong. What is your opinion?
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/13/business/fi-briefs13.S4
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/fashion/nasty-comments-on-twitter.html?ref=socialnetworking
I'm still a die-hard facebook user. I made a twitter account but never could make myself start using it regularly. I think I have 3 tweets altogether. Everyone said I need to use twitter instead of facebook because twitter is the most popular, and that in a couple years no one would be using facebook anymore. Now I have stats to prove them wrong. Thanks for the post!
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