Twitter

Twitter was created in 2006 which is an online social networking and microblogging. The users allow to send and read less than 140 character text messages. In some ways it is similar to the Facebook.

It is a very useful, you can put whatever you want every interesting things happened around you, or your feeling share interesting, vent emotions, published some notices. It is now a kind of entertainment. In addition to a restricted number of words, there is no limited to the content, you can post slang,character expression, etc. nowadays, most people have the smartphones which means Twitter became a very convenient way which also as known as one of the fastest way to send or receive information.        

There are some differences between blog and Twitter. Frist, a blog, which is short for weblog. It is more like an online journal or diary of what recently happened. Twitter, is similar to a blog, but is meant to be short, sweet, and to the point. "Tweets" are 140 character updates about what you are doing right now. Twitter is actually a "micro-blog", which means that it is a blog in short message form. Each "tweet" is just 140 characters long, however if you "follow" a person you are able to keep updated on their everyday life, quotes, opinions, even if you have no connection whatsoever with them which is exactly the same as a blog. A blog is just an online diary, and the main difference between having a blog site and a Twitter account is that in a blog you are able to write more expanded entries, whereas with Twitter everything is far more condensed. Both are used to express yourself and to learn about others thoughts. The biggest difference is: Blogs are online diaries but journal is a daily record of events or business; a private journal is usually referred to as a diary.

It make such a horrible chaos if thousands of people all rewet the misinformation at once. Here is an example of misinformation that was spread using twitter. On April 15, 2013, there were two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people. Massive speculation broke out on mainstream media and social media sites, particularly Twitter. After a shooting on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus and a manhunt, one of the suspects was shot dead and the other arrested the evening of April 19.The entire time, a flurry of tweets was published on Twitter using hashtags such as #boston, #prayforboston, #mit and #manhunt. A number of incorrect rumors surfaced that spread rapidly before corrections started appearing. People could see very clearly the negative impacts of misinformation in this event and it should serve as a warning for some serious review of how we are using Twitter.