The Twitter Debate

Since nobody has decided to started working on this yet, i thought i might start it out.

I believe that even though twitter is used, at times, to post some rather inane or 'why on earth would you ever post something like that' comments, i believe all such comments are an important part of the twitter culture. The reason being that it gets a person into the habit of using such a technology and therefore when an individual does comes across something rather important or newsworthy, putting that information on twitter becomes instinctive. I rarely use facebook, simply because i never got into the habit of updating my status or using other insignificant programs and games that people keep forwarding me everyday. Hence when i come across some form of important information my first instinct is to call everyone rather than announce it on twitter or facebook. A good example would the gunmans who attack the hotels in India.

The first reports of the instance were reported on twitter by people with no relationship to the mainstream media. These were the same people who tweeted something like, "i just got done picking my nose." Their first thought was that a devastating event just took place and they should get the word out through twitter.

The other advantage that twitter has is that it is the only Web site that can be updated using a phone that cost less than $300.