What is your opinion of Twitter?

[sabrina 1]

12. It's a great source of information, depending on how you use it.

Eg, you get instant news as it is happening, depending on who you 'follow'. You can use it any way you want, another advantage. It is a tool with which you can promote a business, political information, work for a candidate. The uses are varied and unlimited.

If you want to read long articles, you can with lots of links. But you are limited to 140 characters which is enough for the purpose of spreading news or whatever it is you want to spread.

If you are using it to GET news, the more people, news organizations, journalists etc you follow, the more news you will get, instantly, faster than any other forum.

If you are using to DELIVER a message, the more people you can get to follow YOU, the better. Eg, you send a tweet to 20 followers, they all can retweet it to how ever many each of them has and so on. It's yelling in the public square and asking people to pass it along. But it will have to be something of interest to your followers to get them to retweet it.

Basically it is a fantastic tool to use however you want to and it's amazing how much information you can get about everything imaginable in such a short space of time.

How does it compare to DU? You have control over who want to associate with. You don't have to share virtual space with people you despise. It's like having your own forum, you can 'ban' trolls, people pretending to be Democrats etc etc who you know are not, or you can confront them and tell them you know what they are up to. You can iow, expose phonies more effectively and not have to deal with them for years. Word travels fast on twitter and if you have a good Reputation, your views will be respected. So far, I have not even had to deal with such people on Twitter. You choose who you want to listen to.

It takes a while to learn how you want to use it, but imo, it's worth it.