New Perspective on Twitter

I've never been a big fan of Twitter. I don't have a Twitter account and I don't plan on getting one in the near future. There has never been any reason for me to have one, I don't feel like anything I do is worthy enough to get tweeted for people to read. Who cares what I do or what I say or what I think? To have my own personal account seems pointless. I do, however, check Twitter everyday to see what certain celebrities/athletes are doing because I am a fan of theirs and it is interesting to me. But even then, reading simplistic Tweets about what they're doing or where they are or whatever, isn't absoloutely necessary. I think it is just another form of entertainment.

But listening to Kate Sheppard talk about how Twitter has helped her not only to communicate with other journalists, but also to get her a couple of jobs, has put a different spin on it. I never really thought of Twitter as something helpful or resourceful. I know that news stories have broke on Twitter because the people who are actually at the "events" are tweeting what is going on as it's actually happening, but I never really considered Twitter as anything more than that. And then she said that she hadn't been on the Twitter bandwagon before getting an account. That reminded me of me. She advised the class to get an account because it can really be used as a tool in the journalism world. That gave me a whole new perspective on Twitter; I might have to get an account myself.