Using Twitter

FRANKLY, I had used Twitter long time ago, but it was somehow annoied and bored to tell everyone ‘what I am doing now’.
I forget my original Twitter account, so I create a new one: stanjuly.

The question now is ‘Is Twitter useful or a waste of time?‘
Well, as I mention at the first sentence, I was fad up with telling the world my status and my thought at the moment. It was very interesting and fresh at the beginning, and truely I cannot deny this. Also, I was not interested in knowing others’ status and actions (They are not my businese!! LOL).
Thus I would like to say that Twitter is just a waste of time to me.

However, Twitter has been using properly  in the recent months, and these events are much respectable than my tiny complaint. Twitter is no longer a social  tool, it becomes a rapid networking tool for helping communication in crises and disasters. It runs much quickly than the traditional media as well.

For instance, a number of immediate information and photographs were posted via Twitter when the US aircraft incident in January and the terror attacks in Mumbai, India.

In June 2009 Iran crisis, Twitter not only played a role of providing immediate news, but also a communications medium. (See Tehran Bureau)

Moreover, the super typhoon Morakot attacked Taiwan at 8 August 2009 which caused serious flood in the southern Taiwan. As the traffic failure in several area, it is difficult to know which places need assistance, food and equipment. Therefore many users utilise Twitter to provide information. (See Taiwanfloods)

Although both of Twitter and Plurk micro blogs can be used for providing immediate information rather than just web social, these platforms still have the risks such as system crash or fake information. Thus, Twitter and other related industories should only focus on the improvement of technical stuff, and the users/news providers should be responsible for their own opinion and entries.