World of publication & design: New forms of media publishing: Twitter

has become the trend nowadays where it is the major communication method people use to connect with people from worldwide due to its widely coverage and its simplicity. Twitter considered itself as a real-time information network that provides a platform for people to share and discover what’s happening around the world within seconds. It somehow act as an alternative of the traditional instant message in phone, it sometimes thought to be a “SMS of the internet” which keeps you informed with all kinds of information.

This kind of new media is able to reach more people rather than the traditional media.However, it didn’t make the traditional instant message to disappear but it lost its dominant position. (Naughton 2006)It forced them to adapt and move forward to a different place in an ecosystem where now it appears as an application in phone like blackberry. (Blackberry official website)

Due to the lack of regulations in terms of the content of the postings of "tweet", it may create a few issues. One of the issues would be the private and confidential cannot be maintained as now information are exposing to the public. Some people may not want their personal life to be exposed to people all over the world which makes them feel uncomfortable. Besides, the accuracy of the information would be suspect by people as people can post whatever they want, especially when political issues arise. It may eventually lead to a false alarm to certain event, such as election. Sometimes, the information will be circulating on the internet before any confirmation of the trustworthiness of it, however it happen too fast that sometimes it actually gets debunked. (Carvin 2009 )