These three questions are compelling when one ponders about twitter. The social online writing space is a new advancement of technological writing. Writing on twitter is called tweeting and it definitely is writing, conveying an argument or information with words. Tweets incorporate arguments where anyone can understand the tweeter's intentions because hashtags (#) are used to concisely sum up a tweet. For example, if I am trying to say that Hofstra University is awesome, I may tweet: "I love Hofstra University #awesomecollege."
Therefore, how could you not consider tweeting to be writing? In a tweet, words are used to convey an argument or information. Tweeting is just a newer form of writing that has been reinventing the writing space by adjusting communication to what our society wants.
In addition, twitter allows us to look at common tweets. After I tweet, anything I have hashtaged becomes a link; I can could now click on the hypertext. This link takes me to a page where I could can view anyone else's tweet who has hashtaged awesome college too (#awesomecollege).
While twitter only permits you to post a limited number of characters per tweet, and therefore words, the messages that you can deliver are endless. We must also remember that this website is normally referred to as a social network. Consequently, although tweets should be considered a form of writing and can be informative, we must acknowledge that twitter is more of a form of entertainment than an educational website.
Do you think Bolter would approve or disapprove as Twitter as a writing space and why?
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