Twitter on CNN

Twitter breakthrough! On the front page, the headlining CNN story is entitled, "Freed student uses Twitter to demand translator's release." I talked a little about Twitter in the first post. It's a website that many people- mostly 18+, businesspeople- can compose statuses which are updated right away on the Twitter website, from the site itself and/or from their cell phone or Facebook. There's a word limit,which makes it easily readable and a quick process.

It takes a little to get use to remembering to go to it- but users can make connections and send important information through their updated statuses.

This is a great example. A student alerted his friends he was arrested by updating his Twitter status through his cell as "Arrested," in which his friends were then aware of the situatuon. The student and his teacher were taken into custody while at a protest concerning the economy. He was let out of jail by help of a lawyer he hired. This has lead some to reaearch concerning a "Twitter network that would allow those in trouble to directly let someone know that they are in danger."

Interesting! Look what technology has come to. This is really cool, especially considering Twitter is kind of a newer site. It's fast, quick approach opens a lot of doors for researchers, and I'm sure there will be a lot of good that comes out of this.