Sweet Tweet!!

I can't believe I've been missing this!! At first I thought, "Oh great. Advanced note passing for the new technology set." As a former teacher, I had visions of an entire class, eyes cast down below desk level, reading and sending twitter messages all day long.

But NO!! What a fantastic tool!! Twitter is democracy in action...or at least the POTENTIAL of democracy in action. Here you can voice your opinions and send them out to the wide world...or at least to people who are following your feed. The only drawback is getting people to follow your feed. Could Twitter actually get younger generations more interested in voting?

I can definitely see Twitter being extremely useful for activists or small businesses. Small groups with a common interest will definitely benefit from timely messages provided they all have equal access to the technology. As perhaps the last person in Calgary without a cell phone the lack of access has to be an issue.

On the other hand I can see how Twitter could be an absolute waste of time. Following every tweet from your favourite celebrity or gabbing with your friends may not be the most useful application of this tool and, unfortunately, the likelihood of using Twitter solely for this purpose is high. Once again, how useful the tools presented are is totally up to the individual user. That is definitely democracy in action.