Assignment 5

Lisa BlockHC 205

Fall 2007

How is Twitter different than

normal blogging?

Twitter

Mobile Connectivity

update from anywhere, anytime

What’s On Your Mindwhere are you and what are you thinking about at any

given moment

Quickershorter messages are quicker to

create

Microblogginguse more often, only 140 characters per tweet

Following; see what your friends are doing

Blogging

More Formalreceive better response with full sentences

and well thought out structure

Takes More Timeneed more time to formulate ideas and

decide how to present them

Better Organized(hopefully) well thought out and presented

More Informationno limit to characters allowed

includes details

How difficult was it to learn to use both Twitter and YouTube or

SlideShare?

Simple Directions

Previous Knowledge

made it easy to sign up and use accounts

Easy to Connectjust agree to following, or search for

someone you would like to follow

What community aspects of both sites exist?

Following (Twitter)adding friends to see what they are doing/thinking

Contacts (SlideShare)More like a professional relationship than a personal one

Search by Shared Interest

Personal Information (T)what you are doing, how you are feeling, etc.

Educational Information (SS)give out information on a topic

Favouriteswhether it be an update (T) or a presentation (SS)

Privacycontrol who sees your entries

Did you use any of these community aspects? What were your thoughts if

you did?

Followed Friendseasy for me to waste time (and see what everyone else was up to on one page)

Informationposted about 15 tweets, it was entertaining and slightly addictive.plan to add a slideshow on slideshare, seems like it would be more

fun on a more personal topic.

The End

Random Note: Looking at my Twitter account I realized 10/17 of my Tweets mentioned

gymnastics in some way… I need a less time intensive sport.