How I came to learn about Twitter

Twitter is new to me, it popped up about mid-semester in my EDM class. Since then I have created an account, found a few followers, and read others tweets. At first I had no clue why we were doing this in class. I already had a Facebook and Myspace account that I didn't use. Twitter is simple and does not require a lot of effort to use, so my efforts to learn about twitter was doing research to find out ways to apply it. Now it seems like every time I turn on the TV or Radio I hear someone else talking about Twitter.
It is great for people who like to blog, but do not feel like designing a website or constructing a blog. It is a good way to keep up what people are doing or thinking without paragraphs of unnecessary information. I have read articles listing people management, time management, business management, and socializing as reasons for using Twitter. The applications that make this possible are RSS feeds, phone notifications, and email. If a group of people are tweeting then they can subscribe to certain follower's updates as well as have notifications sent to them on their cell phones. This is neat because it is a good way to connect phone messaging and the internet.
I have found that the people with the most followers on Twitter already have established popularity and they use the site for self-promotion. It takes a little work if you want to have a lot of followers because you have to search people and begin following them. Twitter is also popular for companies that are looking for followers in order to promote their business. But for my purposes I have also researched how teachers and learning communities can use Twitter and the list goes on and on.
In conclusion, the work I have done in order to understand Twitter has been through various articles that I found online to discover its applications. I have read everything that has been posted to the Class Blog about Twitter and have talked with Dr. Eddy Shaw about the possible uses of Twitter in classrooms. He is the one that opened my eyes to the educational purposes of Twitter.