Let Me Twit

What is twitter? “Twitter is social networking service that allows members to inform each others about what are they doing and what they think of. It allows message to send via phone or instant messaging” (Wekipedia, 2007)Yes, twitter is a very simple service that allows you to send the simple status update message to your friends via SMS , IM or very basic web interface . Those message are then sent to everyone who follows your updates by using any of the communication of methods available. Thus, the twitter is a very great way that friends, colleagues can shadow and learn each other. A global community of friends and strangers are answering one simple the question “What are you doing?” This lets you know and feel of hour-to hour of your friends’ activities.

Twitter is like a blog which let the whole world know that what are you doing or what are you interested in. Sometimes, it is very difficult to keep updating in the blog for every few minutes to tell the whole world that what are you doing at the very moment but twitter does. Using twitter is a lot easier than setting up a private blog to distribute the same information. Having the twitter account is very easy. Anyone can register the account with existing email account and get the password and leave the message to the friends.

Most of the people mentioned that the blog is a virtual community . How about twitter? Is it a virtual community? The answer is definitely. In my opinion, it is best and most efficient way of online community. Virtual communities is a "social aggregations that emerge from the Internet when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace" (Rheingold ,1993). In the online community, people can communicate each other “without regard to race, creed , gender or geography”(Wellman & Guila, 1996). Not only for social networking within friends, twitter is very useful when it comes to the work place . for example, two coworkers in the same company have to act upon different concepts of work day effectiveness. Twitter allows employees to interprect each others.Therefore, those poeple in MNC, Twitter can also help convey ideas and atmosphere in real time which is something most distance workers wouldn't normally experience in such an informal manner."Community plays a significant part in our lives especially our development and maturation through exchanging our experiences with others in the community" (Fernback & Thompson, 1995). Therfore, twitter is indeed virtual community.

REFERENCE
Fernback, J. & Thompson, B. (1995, May). Virtual communities : abort, retry, failure? Retrieved 21:00 March 17, 2007 from http://www.rheingold.com/texts/techpolitix/VCcivil.html
Wellman, B. & Gulia, M. (1996, April). Net sufers don’t ride alone: virtual communities as communities. Retrieved 21:00 March 17, 2007 from http://www.acm.org/~ccp/references/wellman/wellman.html
Wikipedia (2007). Twitter. Retrieved March 17, 2007 from