The author first started off explaining his first reaction to Twitter, “The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression”
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I agree with this authors impression. My friends all started using Twitter a couple of years ago and only after I was bored one weekend last spring, I finally joined it. At first I only followed people I knew, because those were the people I cared about. Then I realized my favorite football players had twitter, and that I could actually interact with them, and they could reply to my tweets that I sent them. Pretty soon I followed over one hundred people. That number grew as I met new members my sorority this fall, and when I followed NFL insiders for updates on football games as they were occuring. Having tweets sent to me were faster then waiting for the televesion to deliver breaking news or waiting for ESPN to update their website.
Now I have had twitter for 9 months and ever since I got an i-touch I find myself tweeting more and more. I am following over 230 people, and have close to 50 followers. Recently I had Lamar Woodley of the Pittsburgh Steelers, retweet one of the things I sent to him! As sad as it sounds, it literally made my day. That is why I love twitter, and I think everyone should join. You can actually interact with your favorite football players, actors, or celebrities. Yeah, some of them have thousands of followers and probably wont see your tweet but you feel some how they read it and take it to heart. Ok, maybe Roger Goodell (NFL Commissioner) wont take my tweets to him serioiusly (they tend to say how awful he is and how he is ruining football, and saying he is out to get my team the steelers) but I do it anyway.
Maybe I am crazy, I know some people in the class whined about having to join twitter, but if they really use it I bet they will fall in love with it too.
Just do not tweet anything to me about Tim Tebow. It is a sore thing right now.
Sarah Davis