Yes, Twitter is definitely a social networking site, utility and an information network. Twitter is a social platform that gives users the ability to connect with virtually anyone. In addition to connecting with friends and family, Twitter also allows you to connect with politicians, the news, celebrities, and employers. Twitter is all about connectivity and it can be used for entertainment or in the professional world. With this platform we can also be informed from the various news sources and the outside world. Twitter is a way of knowing what is going on at all times and getting information, especially in the news instantly. It allows updates by the minute and sometimes even by the second.

Since Twitter is a social media, it can shape our realities. It can do this by accounts posting incorrect information or fake pictures and photo shopped. These kinds of things might lead us to believe things that aren’t actually true. It can also shape our realities because sometimes users online create a fake persona and pretend to be someone or something that they are actually not. This is especially important for Twitter because everything being said online is coming from someone sitting behind a computer screen. Twitter is different than other social media sites because it doesn’t really require pictures of the user to be shown. So in other words, pretty much anything can be said by anyone.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/media/twitter-russia-capitol-hill/index.html

The article I found in the news discusses how Twitter informed Congress that they have taken action on about 200 accounts and determined whether or not they were linked to Russia in the intent of interfering with American politics. The company, which included Twitter representatives, met with the Senate and House intelligence committees to suspend these accounts and prevent them from further interfering with the 2016 presidential campaigns and from giving other types of political events bad media through Twitter. This story doesn’t really match up with what I originally think of when I think of Twitter, but I think that it is a major positive for them and to keep their site as reliable as possible.