Social media become a trend that people can’t live without it such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. Younger generation are familiar with this new social media because of social networking among their friends. However, there are no more a tools that only for connecting people and for the purpose of gaming. There evolving into a tools which provide latest information and news to the society. It also play a role as a way to let people to voice out their opinion without any constraint. Take Twitter as example, it was also known as Microblog where people can post their feelings and opinions in a short and simple way. Twitter provides a unique way of following discussion and news just by using the hash-tags (#). For example, you would want to know more about Steve Jobs, Just type # follow by his name.
Journalist uses Twitter to get the latest news. According to Robinson (2011) if you’re not on Twitter, you’re making your job (journalism) more difficult because it's a place where people are talking about things that matter to them. He did pointed out 5 main points for journalists who use Twitter:
- Breaking news
- Networks
- Interesting Conversations
- Interesting links about journalism
- Story ideas
References:
Robinson, J., 2011. Aquick start guide to Twitter for ASNE members. [online] Available at: <http://asne.org/article_view/articleid/1823/a-user-s-guide-to-twitter-for-asne-members.aspx> [Accessed 25th August 2011]
Internet Evangelism Day,2011. Twitter and micro-blogging, Internet Evangelism Day.[Online]. Available at: <http://www.internetevangelismday.com/twitter.php#top>[Accessed 25th August 2011]
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