How to Make Twitter Actually Useful by Wall Street Journal.

Twitter, one of the most well-known, and revenue generating, social media applications to date. Twitter ranks amongst the most popular social media digital applications because of its unorthodox style of free roaming through media, along with adding your thoughts out into the world via “tweeting”. In the late 20th century and the early 21st century, information from major media outlets like, sports, news and politics were shared via newspaper, radio, and television. If you could not afford, or had no access to these media outlets, the only way to find out about news in the world was word of mouth. In this current era, just simply opening the twitter application on your phone will expose you to just about anything you wanna find out about what is trending in the world. Although Twitter is at the top when it comes to popular social media outlets. It still has had its struggles over the years with its identity crisis. Is it for pictures? Videos? Memories? or is it just a random app with a bunch of random randomness to full fill a random persons fantasies? Now although it is not identified, the main point of having a twitter, It is a great way to brand yourself or brand something, and share it to the world. Brian Winston’s theory that technologies “embody ideas, needs, imagination, possibilities from specific periods and places” goes hand in hand, with the social media in this era and especially twitter. Although ego’s and ideas can clash and cause controversy over social media, there is still a great deal of wholesome, idealists and support groups committed to peace, love and happiness. We currently live in a digital era, where any idea could possibly be a fact, even when its an all out, obvious myth. As citizens, we stand behind our morals and beliefs. Social media gives people the right to have their opinion and gives people the right to speak out into the world. Whether idiotic and ignorant, or wholesome and motivating, everyone has an opinion.