by Haylee R Thomas

I chose to do my online collaboration report on the social media website ‘Twitter’. Here is a summary of my findings.

Twitter is a free social media website designed for online communication between people all over the world. Twitter was created and launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and now in 2015 has approximately 315 million users.

Each individual Twitter user has their own profile page and specific username. The username, which can sometimes be referred to as a handle, is used to identify the user on twitter. A status update or post made on Twitter is called a tweet.

When using Twitter you can subscribe to another Twitter account, this is called ‘following’. Once you follow another user you will see their tweets. Anyone on Twitter can follow or un-follow another user at any time with the exception of blocked accounts.

If you block a Twitter user they will be unable to follow you or add you to their Twitter list. Blocking is a necessary feature as Twitter is a social media website and the disadvantage of social media is the users can be exposed to cyber-bullying.

Links
Below I have listed a couple of Twitter web page links these are examples of what a Twitter page looks like.

Foo Fighters
https://twitter.com/foofighters?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Alienware
https://twitter.com/Alienware?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor