This
past weekend I was indulging in a bit of smack talk with some Minnesota Wild
hockey fans about the game. All of which started because of a simple hashtag… God
bless the world that we live in. I can directly talk smack to opposing team’s fan
base from the comfort of my Pepsi Center seat. It’s glorious.
Twitter
has been on the rise non-stop since March 2008. As of January 1 , 2014 there
was 645,750,000 , with an average of
135,000 singing up every day. With 58 million tweets per day, whether it
be mindless rants about One Direction, or the Breaking news in a foreign
country, twitter is usually first to know everything due to its global users. Twitter is
on the rise, and I don’t see it stopping any time soon. Thanks to the 140
character limit people cannot get long winded, and have to get right to the
point. This isn’t Facebook where you can write a small dissertation about your opinion.
Quick, short and sweet. In today’s world
we don’t have time to read more than 140 characters, because by the time that
we have read any more than that a new breaking story has already occurred.
Now
looking back at the Wild situation it was occurred to me that twitter has revolutionized
the way that I communicate to social networks. Before I jumped off the Facebook
ship I used to put hashtags in my statuses, not quite sure if it was out of
habit or if it was because I was trying to attract people that have the same
types of beliefs I do. Twitter’s hashtag has made it immensely easy to find
people that are talking about the same things that you are. Good or bad you get
to see the opinion of millions, and millions get to see the opinion you put on
your profile. I am glad that companies have started to use twitter for direct feedback
from the customer. @Avalanche uses it’s twitter account to spread news about
game times , team news , and live updates during the game.
By
the looks of it twitter is still on the rise and there is no stopping it. Move
over Mark Zuckerberg, looks like there is a new bird in town #burn .
twitter stats from : here
twitter stats from : here
