Twitter actually useful as a news medium
I was rather skeptical about Twitter when I heard about it. I also thought that no one cared about a Facebook with nothing but status updates.  I was wrong. Twitter is not just a status updater, and that is why I disagree with Sara Boyd’s opinion on Twitter.  The reason I use Twitter (about 99 percent of the reason) is to keep up with current events — specifically the war in Afghanistan and pretty much anything our military is doing. This is the reason I love Twitter. I never have time to get a paper with class and work in the way, and I hate to watch news stations because they either distort the truth, are too biased or always consist of two people who disagree with each other — seeing who can talk the loudest on national television; it’s obnoxious. Twitter has solutions for this. I can follow the alternative news that I want and even get “Tweets” from people embedded with the troops in Helmand Province at this moment. I know no one cares what I myself am doing at any given point in time, but that isn’t why I created the account. If you are not kept up-to-date on what’s going on in the world these days, then you have rendered yourself useless.  You couldn’t even have a legitimate conversation with someone about politics. You probably don’t know why Hamid Karzai is important, or why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-Il are all bark and no bite. And if you have sunk this low, maybe not even knowing that the U.S.A. is taking names in the Olympics (leading with 14 medals as I am writing this). Twitter is a savior in this department. I truly believe it has revolutionized the way people get news during this technological era. Go ahead and look me up, Sara. My account is “spencerhlamb.” I’ll Tweet you on the reg.Spencer Lambaccounting junior
 
 
 
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