Social bookmarking sites

1. Task 1
Social bookmarking sites
Twitter
Mr. Kavoosi
Iran University Of Science And Technology

2. In the name of God
Name: Mohammadreza Kavoosi Course: CALL Assignment No: 1
Dear doctor,
In the attached file you may find the assignment No: 1 . I'm eagerly waiting for your feedback.
Respectfully, Kavoosi
Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and
interact with messages known as "tweets". It was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan
Williams, and Biz Stone, and in March in march 2006. In fact, Twitter is one of the most popular
social networking services in the world which allows registered users to send short message to
other registered users.The word Twitter comes from the frequent chirping sound made by
birds, hence the bird used in the Twitter logo.
Twitter has many uses of both personal and business use. It's great way to keep in touch
with your friends and quickly broadcast information about where you and what you're up to.
Twitter is basically the best way to discover new content and keep up with your favorite
topics of interest and people. Twitter lets you exchange ideas and information with other
people around the world. For business, Twitter can be used to broadcast your company's
latest news and blog posts, interact with your customers, or to enable collaboration and
group communication.
Advantages Of Twitter
1. As Twitter is one of the world’s most popular social media platforms with a massive
population, Many businesses use Twitter as it allows direct two-way communication with a
variety of customers.
2. Twitter is fast , so the people following your business will receive the tweet immediately.
3. By using Twitter, the business owners would let their customers be informed on all the latest
news about their business.
4.Twitter is free and it doesn’t require a monthly payment. So, you can create an account for free
and start posting.

3. 5. Since it has a massive number of users, twitter helps you connect with people that you know
and people that you want to know easily
6. The Twitter platform offers various levels of security. The main thing is the privacy of the
account; this means that the user can decide who is allowed to see their publications.
7. Twitter is Free of publicity. It means that Unlike other social networks, Twitter does not have
advertisements. This represents a great advantage as it does not saturate the user with
information that may not interest you.
8.Twitter platform is very easy to use.
Disadvantages Of Twitter
1.The biggest disadvantage of Twitter is that, unfortunately, Twitter has a limited word count for
every post, as it only allows 140 characters per post.
2. Having a massive amount of users may also be another disadvantages of Twitter, as there not
onlycould be quite a lot of fake accounts all over Twitter but also in most cases, these accounts
would be spam accounts.
3. Twitter is not ideal for the visual content and it is mostly text based. So, You can’t upload the
videos on it. It means, if you want share more photos , videos on twitter, it’s not more effective
like other photo and video sharing sites.
4. The main disadvantage of Twitter is its addiction , When you start to use Twitter, You will be
involved in it and it will waste your precious time.
5. The information posted on Twitter can become viral in a matter of seconds. This is a
disadvantage if the publication is false or offensive.
6. As it does not have a policy against plagiarism, the content posted on Twitter may be subject
to illegal appropriation
Twitter can be helpful as an educational tool, and it is widely used among the academia all across
the world. It is not only for entertainment, but it can have a very important role in academia as
well. Students, teachers and parents will all benefit of being active on Twitter. There are some
advantages by using Twitter in educational purposes. Such as:

4. 1. Both teachers and students can easily and quickly tweet details of homework and assignments
using Twitter in education.
2. The email seems to become an old fashioned tool for collaboration. Now teachers can
motivate students to use Twitter in order to work on collaborative assignments. students can use
Twitter to collaborate on different projects and keep a quick reference on any changes.
3. Using Twitter in education provides a great way of socialization and encourages students to
speak up for the issues they believe in, and become opinionated.
4. It provides a new channel for teachers to communicate with students and for students to probe
topics in new and exciting ways.
5. Twitter has ability to connect people that otherwise wouldn’t be able to communicate.