To Tweet or Not to Tweet?

Twitter is a social networking website where one can update people from all over about what they are doing. A very useful if someone wants to keep up with a friend or family member. With already 190 million plus members Twitter still remains one of the top sites to follow. The process of a "tweet" (a persons comment) is someone writes a little update of what they are doing, for example "I am typing a blog post", and all of that persons followers can now see what that person is doing. Recently people have been able to "tweet" from their phones making it easier to stay updated.

Another function of Twitter is it allows people to follow other people or groups. So if someone wanted to follow what their favorite sports star or politician was doing then they could do it by following their page. A Wyoming Seminary student, Jack Cartwright, says that "I can find things faster on twitter than on the news and I can see what people are talking about on hot topics which is very helpful when you want to be up to the minute."

Another Seminary student Kristian Stefanides does not find Twitter very useful saying "I do not think twitter is useful because you can simply only "tweet" I like Facebook much better because you can IM, post pictures, write on a friend's wall, etc. Twitter is too many small updates."

In the end Twitter is a very useful tool for keeping in touch with friends and family all around the globe.