I attended the Twitter work shop and I reported back to my group later in the day. Going to the work shop was quite helpful because we were taught how Twitter worked and what it is used to promote companies, celebrities, etc to the public. I don't have Twitter so it was really interesting for me to see how it can be used in different ways. The idea of having a Twitter account to benefit this project is so that the tutors can see how we are communicating online. I don't have a Twitter account and personally I dont really like the idea because we are already keeping in contact over facebook, as this is a social media site we all have in common. To me Twitter seems to be a really hectic and busy social networking site. In the work shop we were taught about a site called Hoot Suite which links to Twitter and can put all of the hashtags in order, so you can see clearly what people have been tweeting about different topics. It was seeing this site which made me see how busy Twitter is. We were also shown another site called ifttt.com which can connect all your social networking sites together, so you could link your facebook account up to twitter and blogger so you only have to create one post which will appear on all your accounts.
