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.
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.

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