To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question???

As my semester in this educational technology course has continued, I have learned more and more about social media platforms from Dr. Bowser. She is very knowledgable about technology, computers, social media, etc. and their many functions. I have learned there is a lot more to Twitter than I first thought. Because of her lesson on Twitter, I now believe I may use it more often.

Scrolling through Instagram, one of my favorite social media applications, one will find posts from a variety of different entities: best friends, universities, celebrities, famous athletes, etc. I enjoy using this application, except for one major flaw: organization. Say I am on lunch break from work and I want to catch up on the latest news from the recent tennis tournament, the Australian Open. Instead of having to scroll through my entire feed of followers, it would be nice to be able to click on a "sports" icon within my Instagram account to find exactly what I am looking for.

While Instagram is lacking this key organizational tool, one social media application is not: Twitter. Twitter does a phenomenal job of decreasing search time through their application, TweetDeck. TweetDeck allows a user to organize his or her followers into different topics such as, sports, news, education, and so-forth. This allows users to better manage what they are seeing on their computer screen and not waste so much time looking at something they may not be interested in. If I am only looking to see what is going on in the sports world then I can go to my sports board to see what is being tweeted. This organizational tool is key to making Twitter a success and more user friendly.

So "To Tweet or Not to Tweet," I think I will go with "To Tweet." Because of their focus on making the application user friendly and more task oriented, I am all on board. After my professor's tutorial on how to use TweetDeck I will definitely join the bandwagon. Now, if only Instagram would jump on board too...then we would be talking.

References
TweetDeck [Online image]. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/tweetdeck