Twitter Critical Review

Twitter is a social networking site. Twitter is used to share short (140 character) updates about your life, called tweets. You can look up your friends or other people that you can follow in order to see their updates. Twitter was created by members of the podcasting company Odeo. The codename for the service was twttr. The first twitter message was created by Dorsey at on March 21st, 2006 at 9:50 PM. The tweet said "just setting up my twttr".  Twitter became its own company in April 2007. Twitter grew rapidly. By March 2010, there were 70,000 registered applications and twitter users were sending 50 million tweets a day. Twitter can be used for business, social, entertainment, news, and recreational purposes. Businesses can use twitter to update their employees on what they are doing and they can use it to twitter to keep things up to date and in order. Twitter is also a great way to keep in touch with your friends and other people in your life to see what they are doing for social use. Many celebrity's use twitter and their fans can follow their twitters to see what their favorite celebs are up to for entertainment purposes. For News purposes, people can go on Twitter and look at what politicians are writing on their Twitters. People can also use Twitter for news like sports, where they can get updates and many other useful information. Twitter is also good for recreational purposes because you people can post pictures and videos. .Some people complain that people are becoming to obsessed with Twitter and believe it is unnecessary to let people know exactly what you are doing at every second of the day. Others disagree and believe Twitter is a great way to keep in touch with busy friends and is great for many other purposes as well.