The very first tweet I ever made was on March 29th at 5:21 pm. It said “can’t believe I am actually tweeting…… what has my life come to?” This statement pretty much sums up the way I feel about twitter. I thought that it was completely pointless and a colossal waste of my time. However, I was assigned to tweet for a PR class so I did. I was equally as thrilled when I found out that I would also be tweeting for this class.
Currently, I am following 62 people on twitter and 22 people are following me. Over my entire twitter experience I found that I was always very updated on the lives of the people that I followed. I’m not really sure how I feel about that. I’m not a person that cares to know what everybody is doing at every point in the day. I just don’t think it is that serious and I don’t think people’s lives are that interesting to warrant an hourly account of what they are doing.
As far as what I think about the site, I think it does exactly what it says it does. It helps you to know everybody’s business every second of the day. However, as much as I despise this concept I cannot dispute the fact that twitter has vast potential for companies. Using twitter can help a company get the word out about the latest and greatest thing that the company is involved in. As soon as a company starts a PR campaign, it can automatically update every person that is following them, which can be very useful.
I do not think that I will continue using twitter after this project is over. Possibly when I get a job I will start tweeting for my company but until that time I do not see the point in updating the world on my every move.
