I have just experienced using Twitter for the first time! Thanks to the Macbeth Assignment #2 I was able to create a fake account in the name of the character Macbeth and tweet on his behalf of scenes/events that occurred in Act 2. I enjoyed playing around with twitter with this fake account as I believe I was able to get a good sense and understanding of how twitter works. I like how the media site is connected in the use of hashtags, it makes thing more organized as well as the way you can tag people like Facebook with the use of the @ sign. I think its really neat how a tweet may only consist of 140 characters and that you can basically tweet about anything. I was trying to go into detail but I ran out of room because of the character limit, this forced me to think more general and I was able to tweet major events with little explanation which was pretty cool. I was able to explore twitter outside of the assignment as well and learned that you can follow anyone in the world including the most famous celebrities, hollywood stars, athletes, businesses and more. I couldn't believe that I was actually reading tweets from the real Miley Cyrus or Ryan Gosling, now I can keep up with what the world is up to and follow the daily events of my favourite stars! I think that after playing around with twitter with this fake account I don't find this form of social media so intimidating and I might create a real account of my own. I think twitter is a great way to inform the world of what you are doing but I believe that everyone who uses this site must be careful what they put out on the internet just like any other social media website, as anything you post is out there for everyone to see and is almost impossible to take back once posted. Definatley a really cool assignment. Here is the link to my Macbeth Twitter account: Macbeth Twitter Account
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