Friday 17 September 2010

Twitter/ RSS feeds/ instant messaging

  1. Write about each one.
  2. Then make a video of an instant messaging.
Twitter, RSS feeds, blogs (for information on blogs, look at other feeds) and instant messaging are all types of instant communication. In this blog I will write about each one and give examples of them all.


Twitter is a type of social networking website. Anybody may have twitter. Users send and read post in the form as text messages. Each post may only have 140 characters. These posts are known as tweets. they appear on the owners page and appear on the profiles of people following that author. To follow a twitter blog means you are updated as soon as the person you are following updates their profile. These posts are used for businesses who would like to recruit new employee they give a brief description in the amount of characters allowed, musicians also have these so their fans can keep up and know what they are doing.
The advantage of twitter is people are in constant communications all the time, its easy, quick and free. However there are bad points for example there is privacy issues and it may take time for comments to be left and people may take time to update their tweets. This means that twitter is not completely instant.


RSS feeds stands for really simple syndication. They have a way of 'transporting' articles across the internet. You will often see an RSS link on websites that have updates. For example RSS feeds can be for following updates of a musician, sports athlete, personal blogs or even the weather. People use these RSS feeds as a way of getting updates from all kinds of websites in one place. This makes it a lot easier to manage all the updates from all the different websites. Below is a screen shot of a BBC news article with the small RSS feed logo in the corner. This is where people will click to follow this article. On the BBC news you also get the option to send this article to your twitter, facebook, email, or print the article off. This is when you want to share the information you have found with other people.


Instant messaging is the fastest way of getting in touch with people. Instant messaging works by first making your own account, this includes giving your name, last name and email address, you can choose to add more information like phone numbers and address. Once you have made an account you have to add your friends or family, to do this you must make sure that first they have an account and then add there address to your invitory. When they log into their account you will be able to see whether they are online or not. If you are both logged on at the same time you may have a conversation for as long as you like, saying whatever you like.
 MSN is type of istant messageing service. Not everybody likes to use MSN (instant messaging service) because there has been a lot of people hacking into accounts.

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