Twitter is the New Math?
September 22nd, 2009
You know we have been discussing and examining the many uses of Twitter over the last few months. The creator and co-founder of Twitter; Jack Dorsey, was recently awarded Webster University’s School of Business & Technology’s Success to Significance 2009 Person of the Year. Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande, dean of Webster University’s School of Business & Technology, introduced Mr. Dorsey, and had some interesting things to say about Twitter. Now, I like Twitter, and I think Twitter can be useful in many areas, not the least of which is delivering up to the second news on whatever major event may be happening in your world. However, this guy waxed really poetic! “Twittering is a conversation between two people yet the definition of two is singular, infinite and boundless. Twittering has become a language unto itself. Words and symbols strung together in a deliberate order to create spontaneous, and sustained, bursts of ideas.”
Wow – I guess I can see that, though I had never put so much thought into it. But, it has become a very much utilized part of our society, especially those of us in the Social Media/web realm.
I look around at our generation and wonder what it has to offer the world. Our grandparents were part of the greatest generation. Our parents grew up part of a huge world, one where anything was possible and so much was happening so fast that it became easy to loose touch with friends and family. Maybe what our generation is going to give the world is a way to reconnect. The ability to feel like a part of a global community. Being able to talk to someone a world away, anytime you want, for free, is an amazing thing. I feel really privileged to be a part of that process, that progress.
As Mr. Ola. Akande noted “Twitter has in effect dismantled the constraints and boundaries of time and space between us. It is an enabler of ideas that has empowered the young and the young at heart to share and stay connected.”
So, for what it is, and what it has done for communication and the written word, I think social media will leave it’s mark, and ours, on the world. What say you?
