2. identifying the conventions
• Twitter is a very social and well known
that has rapidly gained worldwide
popularity, with 200 million users, who
posted 340 million tweets per day. This
shows how well known they are.
• There’s 140 characters limit for those
who tweet so therefore they can only
write a short paragraph.
• There’s hashtags this is categories the
status by topics. Twitter also gives
people a list on what’s trending the
most on twitter.
• Twitter also has direct messages, they
direct messages can only be sent to
people who follow each other.
3. • There's retweets this is a sharing content that can show people who don’t
follow you your tweet by showing it on the person who don’t follows you
page.
• There’s following and followers, these people are the only people who can
see the tweets you tweet.
• There’s an activity page to show what activities that are currently happening
on twitter.
• The @ sign is what people have to do when writing to someone on twitter
by writing the username with it. This a good way to communicate with
people as its much more quicker.
• Notifications is what people use to notify people. Twitter is a very good way
to communicate with people from different places, it is a very worldwide
social network. It’s also a very fast way to find out what’s happening in
different places, as people always tweet when something's happen.
• The sight can help people witness things very easily and it also can give out
false reports.
Identifying the conventions
4. • Form: micro blogging social network
• Structure:140 characters,status,retweet
and pictures
• content: individual’s expression
• Technical conventions: see previous slide,
interactive
• Mode of address: depends on individual source-
formal/informal/humorous/serious subjective.
