6/12

The twitter bird's answer to "Who are they talking to?" is no one and everyone. They are not directing their tweets/ thoughts to any particular location but to anyone who wants to listen/ follow them, therefore the world. I do not wonder who my audience is when I post on twitter because I know it is you. I do not tweet except for this class because I feel that no one is listening and even if they did, it would not affect me at all because my tweet will be forgotten as soon as another tweet is posted (which is all the time). I do feel differently about my audience on online writing environment because that is Facebook. This medium I use to message my friends and find out how they are doing, not the world. So I really don't have a online audience relationship because I just use it for information and an easier way to text. I imagine if I do tweet that the people who are reading are really bored people who are spending their lives reading tweets like mine. By my previous statement, I also doubt the viability of twitter as a valuable tool. The purpose of microblogging is to see how many people one can affect in the most arbitrary way possible.