The Wonderful World of Twitter

     I love Twitter. I absolutely love it, and for several different reasons than many others. First, it allows me to randomly check up and talk to my sorority sisters. I can see their tweet about having a bad day, and then I can tweet back telling them it'll get better or asking if there is anything that I can do for them. Second, I can follow TV shows, celebrities, movies, etc and stay updated on what is happening with them. A lot of transmedia interaction involves Twitter, whether it be promotional materials to sneak peaks to links to interviews. Next, Twitter allows me to express myself on a more simpler level. I may not necessarily want to write a short blog about something, but on Twitter I can post it without worry. Being a Film and TV Studies major, I follow and tweet about a lot of movies, TV shows, actors, writers, etc. You get the picture. One day I was tweeting about this foreign childrens television show that I watched in a class, and the writer/producer of that show tweeted back at me. I had a whole conversation with him about the television show and my opinions on it. That was literally amazing for me. I thrive on experiences like that because that is what my future career is going to be built on. Twitter is one of the fastest ways to communicate, and it is a great networking tool. You can literally follow anyone on twitter, without having to go through all the friend request of Facebook, or the slow process of emailing people. I'm connecting with people in the television agency, and that is definitely going to help me down the road.