Twitter Leads People to Success
By. Annisa Rizqi Handayani
Nowadays, people use social media to make many things
easier in their lives. They have already been familiar with some social
networking services which are mushrooming and becoming an interesting issue.
One of the most popular social networking sites which people all around the
world talk about is called Twitter. Twitter is a social networking site or
micro-blogging service which was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006. This micro-blogging
service enables its users to send a text in 140 characters, known as tweets. Then,
why does Twitter become so popular? The answer is in how people are really
enthusiastic about it. It grows with 140 million active users all around the
world with Indonesia on the fifth position.
No wonder, almost every well-known people from Justin
Bieber to Barack Obama are now on Twitter. Even Barack Obama, the number one
person of the United States, used Twitter as a way of his election campaign. Thus,
there are so many benefits of what we can get by using this social networking
service. Furthermore, most of the Twitter users are young people who have fresh
thought and creativity.
Firstly, Twitter becomes a media that provides real
time information and highlight news. There are a lot of Twitter accounts of some
Indonesian news media such as @kompascom
(the Twitter account of Kompas), @jakpost (the Twitter account of The
Jakarta Post), @korantempo (the
Twitter account of Tempo), and so on.
By following those news accounts, we can get a lot of recent information when
signing in Twitter then seeing the timeline.
