The reading this week about live tweeting in a classroom setting got me thinking more about how I use twitter. In particular the idea that, “live-tweeting draws a diversity of perspectives.” I used to think of twitter as just a social media website, but now I realize that my use of twitter is more related to getting sports news and discussing stuff about sports or reading discussions about sports.
This article about twitter as the 21st century news source discusses how twitter is a crowd-sourced news source that offers a different perspective than other news sources. Firstly, the way I use twitter as a news source is to see news about Manchester United or any players from the team as they are more reliable than newspapers, especially with all the fake transfer news going around, and they usually tweet stuff as it happens. This allows me to keep up to date on accurate transfer news and and injury updates or announcements from players, as well as one player who does a weekly blog post. This represents one of the perspectives that we don’t usually get from newspapers, hearing from players directly is something that did not really happen before twitter. I find it really cool to be able to have this connection to professional athletes that I watch every weekend.
Example of player making an announcement on twitter. This was made in reference to him re-signing for the club for an additional year after his contract running out.
In addition to the team and players, I follow many sports accounts, ran mostly by normal people (i.e. not sports journalists). They tweet about soccer games as they go and are interesting as they give different views on players and teams as the season goes on. It is always interesting to hear what other people think about certain players, clubs, or coaches. Overall, twitter is much more than social media, and gives people a way to get news and discuss things with people who share similar interests. In what other ways is twitter different from other social media sites?
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I do like how you talked about the different perspectives of players on social media that fans did not really get before. Having the perspectives of the players in sports is an interesting idea but I feel like for some off the bigger name athletes, they have people in charge of managing their social media accounts. So I dont know if those accounts are actually the perspective of the players.
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Twitter is different from most other media sites in that everything feels much “faster.” All the posts have to be short, and everything comes in at real time. On facebook for example, updates feel much slower due to the possibility of longer posts or responses. This feeling of everything being so instantaneous is what makes Twitter so popular. In a world where us digital natives need everything as fast as possible, Twitter makes this possible.
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