Twitter affordances and disadvantages

Twitter is a social media site where you are able to express your thoughts and feelings in 140 characters. This has the upper hand over facebook as you dont have to read long paragraphs of peoples life stories that they post, this is an advantage as you are able to see what people are getting up to by reading one sentence in roughly 10 seconds. Another affordance is if you have a well known account, through posting funny pictures or quotes you may be able to become a well known name and you can advertise a certain brand product through that account. For example one of my friends twitter accounts has over 10,000 followers therefore the nightclub ramshackle hired her to work for them and advertise their tickets through her account. This is a great affordance as the name of the night club will be spread to people who maybe haven't heard of it, as well as that the girls whose account it is gets paid a certain amount buy the company for every ticket that she can sell. These tickets would be sold by great advertisement non her behalf so she has to sound very friendly and enthusiastic whilst talking about that company.

Technology

Our first messages could only be delivered as quickly as a man could walk or shout, as far as he could throw or as fast as his horse could travel. Of course, see methods are still use today, eg. Postal service workers.

This method of technology was the only option back in the day before things like the computers and the internet, however by using this way to communicate it meant they had to have a precise message to send and normally they were very important messages. For example before they wrote letters they had to tell people messages and get them to travel to whoever it was being sent to. Advantages of this is that the receiver  of the message  will be able to understand the tone that the message was being sent in and can read of the messengers body. Disadvantages to this would be that it would take a long time to deliver the message depending on how far the messenger has to travel. Also if the message was misunderstood it could be projected by the messenger in the completely different way intended. Whereas modern day technology, like phones, a message could be sent and delivered within seconds and can be relayed back and forth until the message is understood.

Mini saga

They walked by everyday pretending not to notice, they don't look, not even a glance.
He doesn't beg. His heart is too kind, too kind to take. He remains curled up most days, like a hedgehog, innocent, quiet, but a rough exterior so no one looks.

One step closer to the edge. All eyes on him.