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To Tweet or not to Tweet?

Twitter is a free text-based micro-blogging and social networking service that allows users to publish their tweets on the internet in the form of 140-characters posts. People can share this by updating their statuses regarding whatever; starting with personal thoughts, passing by various humans issues (environmental, economical, social, political, etc) and last but not the least about the Big-Bang theory.

To Tweet or not to Tweet

Since launched in 2006, users were able to tweets posts that links to any URL and this has positively placed Twitter among the top social networking list in terms of users; as of 2007 where (bloggers) and users interaction was not only sharing plain words but also publicizing their own sites either being personal or business.

As of 2008, politicians and main-stream media joined the game and by 2009 we see a tremendous dependency on this service in the social world and a hysterical attitude of following up public figures and celebrities whose followers already passed 1,000,000 (1 Million) users.

Tweet or Not

You may ask: so what’s up, dude?
Well, back to title of this post, I place my answer as follows: “that is not the question.” This simply means it is not whether to use twitter or not but mainly about how to use. In other words, Twitter is about the tool that can be implemented either positively or negatively so what I am concerned about here is mainly abusing the system either technically or socially.

• Technically: spammers, site hackers, and terrorists;
• Socially: hatred-spreaders and pornography preachers.

Spammers Group: As for first abusing group, it is sad but true how the service is being abused by such bots-and-people. It’s important to take serious actions to reduce the technical side effect as much as possible.

Hatred-spreaders: As for the second abusing group: I am worried about how our children – in any society – might be exposed to such threats to how they are being raised which also something need some kind of control.

On the other hand, users who do not lay under the two mentioned categories are simply expressing their freedom of speech, which is something to be respected. That said, freedom of speech does not mean insulting others just because a sect – in whatever – see that they are right and the others are wrong.

Of course, I am not calling for any kind of censorship; on the contrary, I am calling for our awareness about why in the first place we are using this service or whatever service: either in the on-line virtual world or the off-line real one. This is basically related to the ethical and cultural background of users that formers their perception and reflects their personality. Furthermore, not all of us know each other in the on-line world so I cannot imagine your personality except from what you blog and tweet!

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