Social media blossoming into it’s final form.

Twitter is a platform that played a huge role in the blossoming of social media in the 21 centuries, it has been the leading front along the sides of Facebook and Instagram as the leading front of social media. Compared to those two platforms Twitter is very unique because it’s not just a social network rather it is a place where news can be first broken and the reach is quite unimaginable, twitter is a place where strangers can converse as a result of one hashtag. It is a word driven site at its peak but ultimately twitter is just more open and as a result more information tends to spread faster compared to other networks. This gift can also be a curse if you read the article by Simon Ricketts on “How the Boston Marathon explosions reveal the two sides of Twitter” he drives into the how great this platform was prior to the Boston marathon explosions, he credits twitter for its rawness, quickness to observe and spread news and just overall impact on everyone’s lives. But with all the g...