Twitter is more popular then ever!!

I chose to do a news story about a study about Twitter being the fastest growing social media out there(http://mashable.com/2013/01/29/twitter-fastest-growing-social-platform/).The article says that Twitter in the second quarter to the fourth quarter in 2012, grew 40% according to the Global Web Index. Also the Global Web Index says that amounts to 288 million active users. Since 2009, it was estimated Twitter had only 35.47 million users. Since then, Twitter has seen its user base go up by 714%. This article also points out that Twitter users are more engaged, in that 59% of Twitter accounts are active on a monthly basis. <br> 

I agree with this claim of Twitter is the fastest growing social media outlet out there for several reasons. First, everybody can access it from anywhere they are. More and more devices have some kind of Twitter applications on them. Devices like IPads, phones and even PlayStation Vitas have Twitter applications on them.So it is an ease of access for people to tweet out something.  Secondly, I see Twitter in more popular culture and in main stream media. Almost every commercial has a hashtag in one corner or another, telling you to tweet about their product or TV show. For example, ESPN SportsCenter has a top 10 sports plays where you can vote for the best top ten sports plays every night. The ESPN hashtag is #SCTop10. Then every night they tally up the Tweets and put the most Tweeted top sports plays and then put them on. The third reason why I agree with this article is because Twitter is less commercialized than other social media outlets.  Take Facebook for example, Facebook is filled with games, promoted advertising and advertising in the news feed. Personally I do not like it and I’m sure others are turned off of it because people do not care what other people are liking as advertisements. Facebook for me is a site where you get on to keep up to date with everybody. I do not use it for anything else other then that. The fourth reason that I agree with this article is that I think that Twitter is a niche problem solver. What do I mean by niche problem solver? I mean  that you can search for items that interest you and start a conversation with people that have the same interest you do. Like say you want to know what are people thoughts on the Super Bowl, you would just put #Superbowl in the search on the Twitter application that you have. It would give you Tweets that everybody had Tweeted on Twitter. Another example would be let’s say you want to see what’s the latest PlayStation 4 news is, you type #PS4 or #PlayStation4 and the Twitter application brings up what other people and news are saying. The final reason is that social networking is more popular then ever before. Facebook started this upwards trend of social networking and it has exploded into other networks like Twitter and Instagram.