The Power of Twitter

Late last month I was having a debate with my friends about what the greatest tasting naan bread was. It sounds like a petty debate, however, we had three people voting for peshwari and three voting for garlic and as you can imagine, things got quite tense. The only way for us to solve our debate was to take to twitter and let other people vote on the matter. Twitter have a semi new poll tweet option that allows you to create your own poll that people on twitter can vote for. This means that your followers can vote and anyone who can view the tweet can vote giving you a very mixed response at times. I posted our poll on my twitter with the simple caption of 'Best naan bread? Asking for a friend x.' I received 95 votes in total. This took our debate between six to a much larger audience a lot faster and easier than we could have managed ourselves, giving us a range of different people to all have their say. It's safe to say that peshwari naan won, why wouldn't it? It is the best.

For me just to do a silly poll on twitter and to get such a varied response shows how easy it can be for people to reach out over the internet and gain their own reactions and audiences for various causes, whether that be marketing, campaigning or even settling their own debates. Twitter has also helped many people rise to fame due to how simple it is for them to be shared to a global audience through users clicking one button and retweeting a tweet to whoever follows them.  This opens up a whole new world right at everyones fingertips. People can tweet and have tweeted from many of the latest terror attacks happening around the world, giving live updates and letting people know what's happening instantly, these tweets alone are known to go viral.

Wtf is happening in Manchester arena? Massive bang & everyone is running & screaming, people are crying

— Rebecca B (@RebeccaBx) May 22, 2017

This tweet from Rebecca shows just that. She heard a commotion and took to twitter to find out what was happening. It didn't take long for other tweets to emerge explaining the tragedy that had occurred and the panic that was unfolding in and around the Manchester Arena.

Twitter is fast. It holds all of the latest news and opinions from the people who are caught up in it to the people on the other side of the world who are showing their support, even if this is through hashtags such as #PrayForManchester. These types of hashtags bring together a whole new community who are looking out for one another and trying to show their support even though they may be on the other side of the world. I believe that this social media sight has a lot of life left in it yet and that it will continue to expand its ever growing community as people share daily snippets from their lives and connect with each other from miles apart.