I really enjoyed the article “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live.” The most interesting thing the article pointed out is mankind’s resourcefulness to find multiple uses for a single tool. In today’s society a tool seems to be judged on how many different things it can do. In our culture, everyone might not have something like a hammer (a tool that can push nails in or pull nails out) but almost everyone has something like a cell phone (a tool that can take pictures, send texts, make calls, surf the web, etc.). While having a hammer is important to some people, having a phone that is part computer and part camera is much more important to the vast majority. Because Twitter can be used for so many different things, it has become an invaluable tool for many people. As long as Twitter can keep changing and updating with the times it will stay in the now as one of the most popular outlets for social media. Since the internet is a fickle thing, Twitter could potentially be forgotten in a few years. Once there was MySpace, which was forgotten about shortly after Facebook. Twitter hasn’t been able to completely take out Facebook but they could be one addition away from doing so. The article pointed out that the creators of Twitter were offered $500 million from Facebook, am offer that seems to imply that Facebook at least feels threatened. The same could happen to Twitter if a new site comes along and develops a large enough following. As things are now, Twitter is a rising star and it will be interesting to see where they go from here.