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Rise of the Twitter addiction: Is twitter rapidly swallowing our brains as time fly's by? What is Twitters secret for this huge addiction?
An image of the Twitter logo adapted as an app logo.
In the recent years, it is now established that Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, with approximately over 500 million registered users in 2012, and an estimated amount of 340 million tweets per day. These insane amount of figures clearly state about the addiction of twitter, and how users cannot stop the endless 'tweets' which is the main part of Twitter. Now, I don't know about you, but I certainly do not think that 140 characters is enough for all you twitter addicts, seeing as the twitter rate is still increasing as time goes by.
For those of you who have no knowledge about the purpose of twitter, and/or what twitter is; Twitter is:
''A social network and real-time communication service launched in 2006 and used by millions of people and organizations to quickly share and discover information.'' From: http://socialmediatoday.com/daniel-zeevi/1371811/twitter-101-what-twitter-really-about
Many others may think that Twitter is an upgraded, popular alternative from Facebook. However, the results of the statistics via above clearly illustrates how Facebook and Twitter differ from each other. Not only twitter is a website you can converse and 'exchange words' to other individuals and socialise, but you can also keep up-up-date on what celebrities and popular people have been doing within their lives, which gives twitter an extra bonus of it's popularity!
Many experts, and society believe that twitter hugely interferes with our education, social life, and communication. ''Twitter is a disease to us, and to our lives. We must reduce the limit of 'tweeting' to others on twitter. That way, we will increase our social lives.'' said individuals from the urban city of London. Although there has been a range of different talks about twitter. Some say it is 'poison' and some say it is 'Useful to keep in touch.' one interesting fact is that ''Twitter has 500 million registered profiles; 100 million are from the U.S.'' If we know that 100 million are from the U.S, can you imagine the popularity from other countries across Europe?
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