This is one of the biggest conversations that seems to happen with
people when they get onto Twitter. Is it easy to express yourself in
that few characters and such? I think it really depends on what you
are trying to say. I have noticed that now when people have more to
say than can fit in one tweet you all of a sudden start seeing 1of3
or 1of4. Now when you have to do that many tweets to get your
message across maybe it’s time to rethink what you are saying and
also who your audience is.
What twitter has done is actually help people to get their thoughts
out quickly and clearly. When you only have a certain number of
characters it means that you are going to be very focused on what you
are saying. I like the idea of only 140 characters because it is
quite easy to read these and if I need to read more a lot of people
are putting tiny url’s in the tweet so that you can go and find out
more information. Twitter should be the means of getting the quick
thoughts out and announcements and then more information can be found
on a website.
Besides people doing multiple tweets to communicate their entire
thought you get the multiple abbreviations. Some of the
abbreviations are easy to figure out and then there are the ones that
make you think.
Here are some confusing things:
-
N/B on S/B shoulder (this took a bit of thinking and close reading to understand that someone was walking northbound on the southbound shoulder of the highway)
-
FGX – Frederick G Gardiner Expressway – most people know it as “The Gardiner Expressway” or simply “The Gardiner”
For me Twitter is a means of finding out quick bits of information.
If I need more information I can go to website and especially the
news sites for the information that I am looking for. Twitter for
me, is basically something that I use to find out about issues with
the traffic and transit around the city. For me, it is also a great
way keeping up-to-date on the latest news happens. I may look like I
follow a lot of people but a lot of who I follow are media and
security/police related.
140 characters doesn’t seem like a lot of characters when you first
start thinking about it but you say alot in that number of
characters. (138 characters)
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