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.