Tweet! Tweet!
Twitter totally kicks Facebook’s backside!
Where else, but in twitosphere, would two diverse personalities as a bollywood actor (@gulpanag) and the editor-in-chief (@nramind) of India’s best newspaper respond to and connect with someone on the same day.
Without doubting the merits of FB as a social networking platform, what makes twitter such an awesome social tool is the simple fact that I can choose to follow the lives of people who interest me without necessarily being acquainted with them. Similarly, if I pump out good stuff - stuff that interests people, twitter makes it easy for others to find/know me. This, my friends, elevates Twitter from being just another social networking site.
Apart from the obvious marketing and monetization potential of twitter accounts, the big game can actually play out in education. During my school and college days, I would’ve loved to get daily bite-sized (140 characters at a time) nuggets of gyaan from professors and authors who were nothing more than faceless names on my reference books. How awesome it would’ve been if I were able to propose improvements in theories directly to their proponents than to skeptical lecturers!
Twitter empowers every single individual to circumvent “the system”.
If you’re a wannabe author, you don’t have to grovel in front of publishing houses!
If you’re a salesman, you don’t have to knock on doors!
If you’re an activist, you don’t have to conduct a thousand meetings to galvanize support!
You may be anyone - doing anything. But if you want an audience - to connect with your reader or customer or even a fellow ideologue - twitter lets you do that.
As long as you have what it takes, the world is just a few clicks (or is it tweets?) away!
