Final Project Research 2 – Twitter
February 9, 2010
A free social networking service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Ever since late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors. All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as “SMS of the Internet” The use of Twitter’s application programming interface for sending and receiving text messages by other applications often eclipses direct use of Twitter.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
What Twitter does?
Whether it’s breaking news, a local traffic jam, a deal at your favorite shop or a funny pick-me-up from a friend, Twitter keeps you informed with what matters most to you today and helps you discover what might matter to you most tomorrow.
The timely bits of information that spread through Twitter can help you make better choices and decisions and, should you so desire, creates a platform for you to influence what’s being talked about around the world. Search results spread across Twitter and in other ways across the Web so you can discover what’s happening on and off of Twitter.com, wherever you prefer.
Twitter can give a voice to even the weakest signals because of its simplicity. Users can access Twitter on powerful broadband connections via a video game console or through faint connections in rural areas via SMS on a simple mobile phone. You can also access Twitter through more than 50,000 third-party Internet and mobile applications.
Just remember, how you use Twitter is completely up to you. Follow hundreds of people. Follow a dozen. Post every hour. Post never. Search for your favorite topics and create lists. Or not. You are in control on Twitter.
Source: http://twitter.com/about
Top 20 Social Networking Websites in Singapore
The following report shows websites for the industry ‘Computers and Internet – Social Networking and Forums‘, ranked by Visits for the week ending 01/30/2010.
| Rank | Website | Visits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 49.23% | ||
| 2. | MySpace | 16.36% | |
| 3. | YouTube | 14.65% | |
| 4. | Tagged | 1.26% | |
| 5. | 1.12% | ||
| 6. | Yahoo! Answers | 1.03% | |
| 7. | Yahoo! Profiles | 0.84% | |
| 8. | Meebo | 0.61% | |
| 9. | myYearbook | 0.57% | |
| 10. | Windows Live Home | 0.52% | |
| 11. | Classmates | 0.33% | |
| 12. | MocoSpace | 0.28% | |
| 13. | Yahoo! Groups | 0.27% | |
| 14. | 0.27% | ||
| 15. | Mylife | 0.24% | |
| 16. | BlackPlanet.com | 0.21% | |
| 17. | Club Penguin | 0.21% | |
| 18. | Yelp | 0.17% | |
| 19. | CaringBridge | 0.17% | |
| 20. | MySpaceTV | 0.16% | |
Source: http://alishawright.com/top-20-social-networking-websites/
Through the information above, we can see that Twitter is 5th in the ranking. Thus, I think that Kidney Dialysis Foundation should have a Twitter account to update on their events so as to create more awareness.
