EOTO Presentation Rection

 In today's Media Law and Literacy blog post, we will be discussing the EOTO Communication Technology Timeline Presentations that took place on November 10th, 2022. 

Twitter in Connection to Technology Timeline

In the world of Communication and Technology, many different things have changed how we as people have communicated. From smoke signals to twitter, humans have always found a way to upgrade the ways that we communicate. 

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Twitter has changed the way that many people, especially now, communicate. They communicate with one caveat, that being their messages and posts are limited to 280 characters (the previous number used to be 140 characters allowed but was upped to 280 in 2017). On twitter, a user can type out a message and include a picture/video or another attachment like a .gif or a poll for other users to vote on. Another piece of twitter is the "hashtag." Users use hashtags to put their tweets into categories within the service. As an example, if one was to say #Ravens within a tweet, another user can click on #Ravens and see all of the tweets users and news media organizations sent out regarding the hashtag. 

Another piece of twitter is the connection between Organizations and Users that follow them. As an example, the Buffalo Bills (an NFL team) have a massive social team which creates content daily for their fans as well as fans across the league. These fans take to Twitter to view and react to the posts which those previously mentioned engagements lead to more followers and more fans of the team.