Social Media: Twitter

     When I was younger the website everyone was on was Facebook. Facebook was what is twitter now, and I think the reason everyone has left Facebook is because it's turned into a more of a family page. Now you only go on Facebook to check in on family and see how everyone is doing, that's what I do personally. The main social media that people now currently are using is Twitter. Twitter is a place where you can tweet whatever you want with a limited number of characters, so you won't see any long boring paragraphs, you'll just see short little posts. Twitter is also the website that every celebrity uses, even the President has his own twitter account. If you want to know what your favorite celebrity is up to or thinking, you can check their twitter and they will most likely have posted something about what they are doing currently.

     Twitter has also become the place where some award show's use to make a category with. For example you can vote for an artist using a certain hashtag, it could be #vote5sos, and whoever in the category gets the most tweets using that hashtag wins the award. That is where you see the fan accounts going crazy getting people to retweet or tweet the hashtag a crazy amount of times. Actually sometimes when I scroll through the tweets of people voting, I notice that their twitter account is dedicated to just voting! That is dedication right there.

     Another thing that Twitter has incorporated to their website/app is that there is a trending list. The
trending list can range from what is trending in your state to what is trending in the world. The trend list is basically where you can look to see what is being tweeted about the most. For example, if there is a major natural disaster, you will see the place where it happened most likely because people will be tweeting the name and what it was because people are also tweeting about what it was. Or sometimes you'll see PrayforTexas, something like that. Just by looking at what is trending you can see what is going on in the world or in your state and see what everyone is currently talking about at that time.

     Twitter is the new platform that everyone, not only teens but also adults who are strong figures in the world, to say whatever they want or show their passion for the people they look up to. It is kind of interesting to think about what Twitter will be like in maybe five or ten years from now. Will it be like Facebook and diminish off or will it still be a strong platform for people to use. What will be the next exciting new social media platform to rise, we kind of saw Vine rise but then that did not stay up for very long. For right now Twitter is the social media Queen where you can post your thoughts or help people win awards, who knows.

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