The Advantages of Twitter
Twitter was used by candidates in the two thousand eight U.S. presidential campaign throughout the race. Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama also used it for publicity. Use in educationThe Distant College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, use Twitter with native Chinese students as a tool to train communicative and cultural competence. Students has to post a certain number of English tweets and react to the tweets of their fellow students. Twitter is viewed as a supplement to practice in authentic environment different aspects of the target language as it was taught in the classroom.Use in emergenciesResearch reported found that blogs, maps, photo sites and instant messaging systems like Twitter did a better job of getting information out during emergencies than either the traditional news media or government emergency services.
