Scott Hommel
7/17/2013
CMSY-129-N091
Portfolio
Assignment #5
Twitter
Article
This
week's Twitter activity went well. I already had an account set up so I only
needed to find a good article and then connect with my classmates. I will say
that I don't typically have conversations on Twitter, I normally use Facebook
for that, so the conversing and replying directly to tweets was new for me. As
far as micro-blogging sites, Facebook continually updates its layout so that it
seems to be right on par with Twitter as far as the instantaneousness of the
experience via the news feed.
The power of micro-blogging
social networking sites is on display in the article I read about Twitter and
Facebook being used to organize anti-government protests in Turkey. The Turkish
government wants Twitter to establish a Turkish office so that the government
will have a domestic liaison and correspondent to address their issues. Twitter
is not planning on establishing an office in Turkey, nor do they have a reason
to do so.
I think it only shows how weak Turkey's government must be, if they
feel so threatened by the website. Web censorship of any kind seems immoral to
me, when it involves restricting citizen
communications and withholding important information. If the Turkish government
was operating properly, justly, and morally, they would have nothing to hide,
there would be no protests, and they would have no need to attempt web
censorship. I think it's great that countries like Turkey are using web
technologies to their advantage and creating real social reform in the world.
Works Cited
"Turkey Seeks to Tighten Control over Twitter." BBC
News. BBC, 27 June 2013. Web. 17
July 2013.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23079607>.
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