Twitter

Twitter was invented by four men by the names of Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Noah Glass, and Jack Dorsey. They created it in March of 2006 and it was released to the public in July 2006. These four guys created twitter because they wanted a news source where everyone could interact with one another. They wanted an app where if something in the world happened, everyone would know about it in seconds. That is what they created with twitter. Twitter has changed the world in so many ways. 

First let's take a look at politics. Twitter is used all the time to raise awareness of political issues and topics. Twitter lets us know about who is running for office, who has dropped out of the race, who is up in the polls, who is expected to win a specific state, country, election, and who has just won a certain election. Twitter also helps politicians to get their point across or a call for action from or to their supporters very quickly. Twitter has also helped many scientists around the world. Scientists use it all the time to gather information and it is a great source to get people to take a survey or answer a question because you will get so many different responses. Twitter has also greatly changed the business world. Twitter is easy way for businesses to communicate with their customers. It's like an advertisement on television, if gatorade puts something on twitter telling people to buy their product people are going to buy it. It is also a good source for customers to complain to companies. It helps consumers see what they should and shouldn't buy for a company as well as it helping the company know that they need to and how they should solve a problem. Twitter is also great for the world of journalism. 

Think about someone like Stephen A. Smith, who is a commentator for ESPN among many other things. He uses twitter virtually everyday to let people know his thoughts or information about whatever sport or new idea he is thinking about. Twitter, like many other social media platforms, is also great for relationships. If you want to talk to someone it is easy to talk to them on twitter. You can talk to people and relate to people that you might not be able to in the real world unless you went out of your way. All of these are positive ways Twitter has changed the world, but just like any platform there are also negative ways it has impacted the world. Bad news travels way faster than good news. 

This is seen nowhere more than twitter. Someone could put up something that is bad that's not even true and next thing you know it is everywhere for everyone to see. Negativity is also very contagious. Once you put up something negative, even if it is not meant to be that mean, people spread it around and that can be very hurtful for whoever it was directed towards.