The "onslaught" of Twitter was quick indeed. Twitter was founded shortly after Facebook and blogging, and had all the reasons and premises to fail. However, the power of Twitter was apparent to all. Many PR and advertising campaigns rely on Twitter to spread the news, as do the popularity of the many celebrities.
I myself recently started a Twitter account just to have a experience on what Twitter is all about. Well, my experience was not that positive, but i do see the importance of Twitter in the future, especially since i may deal with PR campaigns.
Twitter functions essentially as a micro blogging website, where anyone can just send a short "tweet" to their twitter for their followers to read. anyone can follow anyone too, which allows a direct link to celebrities to their fans, who would love to read every single aspect of the celeb's lives. you could retweet tweets that you like onto your tweet and all. Here's where my experience went a little off the track. I added like 5 celebrities of whom i have respect for, but in doing that they flooded my twitter page with advertisements of upcoming gigs and TV shows, which was an obvious ploy by their publicists to increase their profile in the Internet domain.
To get a good twitter experience i guess i must also have an adequate number of friends who use Twitter. However, i find that Facebook serves this purpose well for me, and having Twitter would probably be overkill.
Whether Twitter will be more involved in the society, i cannot say for certain, but we do know that the Internet is expanding at a rapid rate, therefore Twitter would also grow with it. Some of us may not like Twitter, but it looks like Twitter is here to stay, with the fans wanting more of their celebrities, and as a campaigning tool for companies.
There's a funny clip that I saw on Youtube a couple of years back, so here's the link for you to watch! :)
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