Twitter Research

Twitter is a social networking site that focuses on just text based comments. The messages aka Tweets are allowed to be up to 140 characters which many people may find is too few. 

Your profile where you can see
all the recent tweets.

Twitter allows all of its members to communicate with friends and family. Many celebrities also use twitter and people can use twitter to find out what the celebrities are doing and to find out any news about them. 

Celebrity Twitter Pages. Lady Gaga
with over 6 million followers.

Unlike blogs you are able to see many different peoples tweets in one place. This is less stressful as it means you do not need to go rummaging through everyones profiles and is much easier to navigate.  In Twitter you are able to send direct messages to other people which you are unable to in most blogs.
 Also Twitter includes location technology which means that you can see where other people are, this can be considered good as you can see where your friends are but also other people who you may not want to know where you are will be able to, people may also debate that this can lead to stalkers or burglaries. 
Due to celebrity endorsement the amount of twitter users has greatly increased. The number of tweets per day has incresed momentously since last year from 15 million in july last year to nearly 100 million in july 2010.

Chart showing the increase in Tweets Per Day

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Twitter 

There are many advantages about Twitter. Twitter is a very easy program to use with registration fast and simple. The search engine makes it easy to find the people you are looking for and so can communicate easier. You can personalise your profile just like you can do in blogs so you can make it specifically how you want.

There are disadvantages too. Twitter is a text based site and means you are unable to share photos, videos etc which you can do using a regular blog. Also your tweets are limited to only 140 characters which only allows you to write very little. So this program is definitely not good if you intend to write large amounts. Also like blogs some people may find it effort to update their profile all the time, this may lead to the loss in your followers.


Twitter is quite a controversial topic and often arrises in the media. Especially when important people say disrespectful things in their tweets. 


One recent story where twitter got in the news was from Kevin Pietersen when an outburst on his twitter page led to controversy and anger. The link below show the whole story.
Kevin Pietersen Twitter Outburst


Another news story i have found is about the criticism that the west midlands police have endured by creating twitter pages for dogs. Many people have been complaining that the police should be doing something worthwhile instead of 'cringeworthy nonsense' of creating twitter accounts for dogs. 
Police Set Up Twitter Page For Dog