Twitter: Pros and Cons

Twitter is a social networking site created in 2006 that enables users to post messages to their followers called tweets. As of 2012 there are over 500 million registered users, sending over 340 million tweets per day.

With Twitter being one of the ten most visited websites on the internet, there are many pros As well as cons.

Twitter is good for keeping in touch with your friends and making new friends over the internet. However this could be dangerous as anyone could be behind a twitter profile and you don’t know who they actually are. This is why privacy laws are in place, but they can only protect the privacy of someone if they put their profile in private, otherwise anyone can view and follow it.

Twitter is also good for keeping up to date with the news. Any big news story is usually trending and you can click on it and see what has happened and also what they views of people are on the situation. This is also good for any businesses that want to market something as they can get it trending and then millions of people will see it.

The major con of using Twitter or in fact any social networking website is that excessive use can lead to detrimental outcomes on both mental and physical health.