Critical Review of Twitter

Critical Review of Twitter
Twitter was developed in 2006 and it is a way of giving instant updates to people who are your subscribers. Twitter is good in that it can give instant updates but is bad in that some things that are said are completely pointless. People tweet about everything and everything. It can give you a lot of random info that is unrelated to a task that you are trying to perform. For a business I wouldn't suggest using Twitter. Texting or using Facebook is a better way to get the task at hand done without as many distractions as Twitter.
Twitter is good if you are just trying to do socially. Twitter is quick posts about random things in a person’s life. It is meant to be what happens between blog posts. Every post on Twitter has to be 140 characters or under. It is meant to be quick and is to help you to get to know someone better.
Twitter has a lot of potential to be abused. Like all new technology it can be abused. Twitted can be used to contact people that you shouldn’t be contacting. Pedophiles often used on line servers like Twitter to talk to little kids. Another problem that I see with twitter is that I think that I could be really distracting. I can people sitting down to do something and then end up on Twitter and not get done what has to be done.
Twitter also now has mobile apps for the I Phone and other smart phones like the blackberry. This allows you to accesses your twitter account from anywhere. Over all I think that Twitter is a good play toy for social interaction but when it comes to getting work done in the business work it is useless.

Websites Used
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-for-iphone.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/3-cool-new-twitter-features-for-businesses-2010-5
http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2010/05/twitter-seo-best-practices.html