Twitter can have both positive and negative impacts on society. Positively, it allows easy connection with friends and family regardless of distance, and facilitates fast communication. It also benefits businesses by allowing promotion and research of trends. However, twitter can be a distraction, especially for students, and reduce privacy as users overshare personal information. It may also contribute to relationship issues if used irresponsibly. Overall, both benefits and risks exist, so wise use of twitter is important.

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TWITTER: POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE
INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIETY?
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
History
Positive impact
Negative impact
Conclusion
References
I
n this modern day, twitter seems like Web.
a good friend to all people in this
Most of the people use twitter in
world. Twitter is a micro blogging
their daily life but they do not know the
tools that was designed as a social network
history of this most popular social
to keep friends and colleagues share their
networking. The fact is twitter was
life or interest with everybody that they
launched in 2006. However, it became
want. This system lets a person send brief
widely used for commercial and political
text messages up to 140 characters in
purposes to keep customers, voters and
length to a list of followers. It can
fans up to date as well as to encourage
alsoallow a user, A, to “follow” updates
feedback. Ex-GooglerEvan Williams had a
from other members who are added as
start-up called Odeo. It was going to be a
friend. An individual who is not a friend of
podcasting platform. Evan asked his
user A but follows her updates is known as
friend, another ex-Googler named Biz
a follower. Thus friendships can either be
Stone, to join him. When Apple launched
reciprocated or one-way.What is the
iTunes podcasting, and made Odeo's
meaning of micro blogging? Micro
podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and
blogging is a new form of communication
Biz and also another Odeo employee,
in which users can describe their current
named Jack Dorsey decided to create
status in short posts distributed by instant
something called Twitter instead. So we
messages, mobile phones, email or the
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can conclude that Jack Dorsey was a www.twitter.com. After that, individuals
founder of Twitter and he is one of the can import their e-mail addresses as well
most successful businessmen in this world. as use the Twitter search to locate and
Twitter starts to be popular among people invite people. Twitter messages can be
in this world in 2007 and the popularity made public and sent to anyone requesting
increases day by day. The chart shows a the feed, or they can be sent only to
percentage of twitter users by country. US approve followers. That is how twitter
contribute the highest percentage of twitter works.
users compared with Indonesia which was
the least percentage of users.
In this fast moving world,
everyone has an internet connection in
Percentage of their offices as well as in their homes.
Twitter Users by People have become more aware about
Country new and advanced technologies. One of
them is Internet Phone Service Messages,
US Japan UK
Canada Australia China with this application, an individual can
Singapore India Malaysia sign in their twitter account everywhere
Africa Indonesia that they want and without any limitation
time by just using
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First of all before we go too far, let
we refresh on how to create an account
twitter? The very first step is an individual
needs to sign up a Twitter account at
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their mobile phone. On the other hand, all problem. One of the positive impact of
the things in twitter like updates or twitter is we can connect with our friends
newscan be sent and received via cell as easy as that. Why do I say this? It is
phone text messaging (SMS), the Twitter because, we can tweet people or our
Web site or a third-party Twitter friends by just type any words in the box
application. As we can observe from the and click tweet. This action will be
bar chart, twitter users is more likely to automatically connecting us with our
access twitter by third party application friends that no longer live near us. Unlike
with a percentage of 65%. While another the previous year where we have to write a
25 % people use to access twitter by using letter and we have to pay for it just to
a short messages services (SMS) text on make sure that the letter is safely arrive to
mobile phone. Perhaps we can see that our friend. Not more than that, the receiver
people are not really which is our friend also
preferred to sign in their needs to wait for a few
twitter account using the days just to receive our
twitter website. letter. Nowadays, with
this micro blogging
called twitter, we can
As we look to
overcome our problem
ourselves, friendships are
easily. We can tweet our
important part of our life,
friends everyday free of
but many of us find it
charge and it saves us a
difficult to find friends, make friends or
lot of time going to the post office and
keep friends. Life events, such as moving
buying paper , envelopes and stamps. The
to another neighbourhood, starting a job or
convenience is wonderful. Owing to that,
having a baby, can isolate us from our
many people decide to use twitter as their
former support group and make forging
alternative way to connect with their
new friendships more important than ever.
friends. Furthermore, twitter can also
Not more than that, if we have a poor
connect us with everyone around the world
social skills, it can also prevent us from
which can also allow us to make a new
taking the first step in forming a
friend. People who are interested in what
friendship, but in this modern world,
we have to say may follow us and they
twitter can helps us a lot to solve this
will see all the Tweets that we share with
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them. This will automatically connect us and with cross-posting over other social
with our new friends. networks switched on, that update reaches
everyone you want it to reach and
Next, twitter can also give a great
probably more besides in an instant. For
advantage on business. It is because
example, artist can tweet abouttheir
obviously, twitter is a marketing platform
activities such as updates from the studio
where the main activity is sharing
when recording, updates on the
information. When we do a search related
manufacturing process and he or she can
to our business or industry, Twitter will
announce when artwork is finished, when
give us many links to websites or blogs.
the master has been approved, when
In fact, this is one of the benefits of twitter
finished copies are delivered and any other
which can urge us to learn about current
thing that they want to update instantly to
trends in our industry. We can research
their fans, reminders about release dates,
local and global trends on twitter and reach
shows and other news, updates from the
up-to-date information very conveniently.
road when he or she on tour, and they can
Also, we can search to find out about our
also update about day to day work news.
competitors’ current activities and
Conversely as a fan, an individual can
strategies and follow if their activities and
know all the recent activities of their
strategies are successful or not. We can use
favourite artist. A part from that,President
this opportunity to repeat their successful
Obama is one of the many politicians who
strategies and also watch for the chance to
use twitter to get his message out around
collaborate with them.
the world. He addresses the public about
The other positive side of twitter is his new campaigns, ideas and even some
its speed up our communication. Mostly, personal information. President Obama
we have lack of time according to work also has link on twitter called “Ask
and family commitments and sometimes Obama”, where anyone can post questions
we do not have time to make a phone call regarding his presidency and his staff can
or even we do not have time to write a choose to respond back to the questions.
short message service (SMS) to our friends So most probably this twitter application
but social networking sites, especially can help us to communicate faster than
twitter offer a chance to communicate in a what we expect because we can spread our
speedy and efficient manner. Writing an news or activity as fast as we can by just
update for Twitter takes all of 20 seconds using this micro blogging twitter. In
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addition, with this advantage of fast connected 24 hours, and we have
communication, an individual can also use immersed ourselves in an extension of
twitter to create a connection between society in which privacy is not treated with
teachers and students. Students can use the high regard it is offline.Perhaps, twitter
twitter to ask about what is happening in users can happily give up personal
their school or university and they can also information without think first what is the
ask about their assignment or homework. side effect if we disclose our information
A part from that, teacher or lecturer can detail to public. Most of us list our
also use twitter to tweet about test date or fullname and birthday, reveal who our
dateline for an assignment to keep their family members are, share our work
students up to date about what is history, our hobbies and interests, and
happening around them. Lecturer can also even what we like and dislike. And we are
make use of twitter to comment or make a doing so without any kind of prodding or
discussion about thelessons that have been pushing. Actually, this kind of attitude can
taken in class to update students. In this lead us to danger. All the information
way, students can share their opinions, ask given can be used for a different purpose
a question and discuss a different answer that will then affect our life.Most people
with their lecturer. This may increase would rightly refuse to walk around with a
student’s knowledge and gives advantage billboard attached to their front revealing
for passive students to participate in this all information about their life. Yet we just
discussion as they do not participate to be do that on social networking sites and
engaged in a class discussion. So, we can people can get our information as easy as
see that, twitter can gives advantages for
both students and lecturer.
Now let us take a look at the
negative side of twitter. As we know, from
the previous page, twitter may give us a lot
of benefits but at the same time the benefit
can also harm us if we do not use this
social networking wisely. One of them is
we will experience lack of privacy. Those that.
of us who are connected to the Internet are
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school or university will experience us a
lot of joy. For sure we have a lot to talk
Next, twitter also can cause a
about anything that happens in our life,
distraction to the user especially students.
stories to tell, reminiscence to bond over.
Research shows that majority student
But we may reconnect from someone that
contribute the highest percentage to twitter
we have in our life now. Recently, we
users. Like we know, students need to
always hear the news about marriages that
focus in order to achieve a higher marks or
have ended as a result of social
a good grade for their exam. Owing to that,
networking. Thus, we can definitely say
some students need to go for an extra class
that twitter can make a couple separate or
or tuition and maybe they have to allocate
even can make husband and wife divorce
some time to revise their subject. Well
because of misunderstanding. For instance,
nowadays students prefer to spend more
we can put fake information in our twitter
time on twitter rather than use their time to
account such as our status or our age. If
make a revision. Make friends with new
someone is married, they can put that they
friends and contact old friends are one of
are single. So this is perhaps the biggest
the reasons why students prefer to waste
impact that we have to face if we use
their time on twitter. This problem will
twitter or any social network in our life.
affect student studies and they will achieve
a bad result. The main reason for this In a nutshell, as we can see from
problem is because social networking sites the whole article, actually twitter has both
are some of the worst offenders. Purely negative impact and positive impact. As a
because they are a constant stream of news human being, we should know how to use
and also view from people who for the
most part, we want to listen to and we
want to always know their updates.
Some people may feel that twitter
is the best place to find a new friend or
even to find our future husband or wife.
But irrationally, it can be harmful for us,
because twitter can also break up a
relationship. It is undeniable that
reconnecting with our old friend from
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twitter wisely. We can think bad things or twitter-among-students-final-version
good things in our life. Twitter is a good
•http://articles.businessinsider.com/
social network for us to stay keep in touch
2011-04-13/tech/29957143_1_jack-
with our old friends and make friends with
dorsey-twitter-podcasting
a new people, it can also speed our
communication without we have to pay
any amount and there is no limitation for
it, last but not least it can also benefit us in
term of business where we can find out
about our competitors activities.
Conversely, the negative impact is it can
cause a distraction, breaking up a
relationship and also give us less of
privacy which actually can lead a bad
impact in our daily life. So overall, all of
us must think first what are the
consequences and the benefit of using this
application before we involve in this
twitter phenomena.
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