Social Networking

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

Twitter was created in March 2006 and the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search’s per day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and can be described as the SMS of the Internet.  

I Previously owned a twitter account, that I made a couple years ago and have neglected it ever since. This workshop was beneficial to reopen my twitter account and start to give it a fresh and professional look. As I now know when going to apply for jobs or internships, social networking sites may come up in my profile or CV. Now when I want future employers to go for me, I would like to have my twitter as my professional social networking site. After resigning in I deleted all of my previous pointless pages I was 

following and decided to re-do it.

 

After adding pages such as BBC News, Leeds Met etc, I was then ready to change my profile and bio about myself. After re shaping my twitter and following hopefully future employers, I then decided to use the two Twitter tools to help me track my tweets/trends, to keep track of each page. Tweetdeck was great for sub categorizing my timeline to my tweets etc, and was very organized to see whether my page needs changing or friends tweets deleting or those sort of situations you could end up in. And then the other Tweetscoop app I used was beneficial to follow the ‘news’ of twitter and how each page is developing during the day.

Overall social networking is a big part of our social life and is around us everywhere, so it will make me realize of what I should actually be sharing or wanting the public/employers to see.