Author: Fei Qu
Abstract
With the development of digital technology and new media, people’s reading habits are changing from offline to online. More and more people get information for the Internet rather than just watching TV or reading newspapers. Online publishing provides a more convenient way for the public to get news. Facebook, Blog and Twitter become increasingly popular for people to share their ideas, make friends and even advertise themselves. As a means of digital publishing, Twitter is becoming so important that many people tweet whenever they could. The user number of Twitter is growing at an alarming rate so that we cannot ignore the importance of it. You just need a mobile phone and type your instantaneous idea, and then it will be seen by numbers of people on the Twitter platform. What is the big power of Twitter which just contains up to 140 words and how do we use Twitter as a digital publishing means?
This article focuses on the characteristic and importance of Twitter as well as how can we use Twitter in the daily life, especially in business, politics, and entertainment. The evidence supporting my opinion will be found from the articles relate to this field such as academic texts, journals , books in library as well as online materials which seems to be most important to this article.
This article will firstly point out the characteristics of Twitter and make comparison with blog and Facebook to make the advantages of Twitter more clearly. Additionally, analyze the reason of the widespread using of these new digital publishing methods by corporation, government and individual by giving some typical examples.
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