After years of staving it off, years of poking fun at those who had one and years of feigning a lack of interest, I finally succumbed to the temptation: I got a Twitter.
(#Shamelessplug: follow me @tonypetersen4.)
Why do I need a Twitter, I would ask myself. Is it not just Facebook, only less interesting? Why do I care if someone slept in this morning? And what could someone possibly say of value using only 140 characters?
Apparently, a lot.
My first hour on Twitter prompted me to say, “I feel like I have so many things to tweet.” Which my fiancé promptly tweeted.
The best part about the social networking website is the ability to gather quick news from many different sources. Whereas I usually get my news from the few websites I have bookmarked on my computer, on Twitter I can follow a myriad of different sources and receive breaking news and analysis in that way.
Judging by Facebook’s recent troubles, what with constantly changing its website and its newfound position as the porn site of choice, it seems that Twitter will only stand to gain. Though they aren’t exactly the same type of site, those who aren’t interested as much in browsing photos and “creeping” ”” yours truly ”” will likely begin to jump the Facebook ship and wash up on the deck of the U.S.S. Twitter.
Though I still don’t understand the concept of a tiny url, nor will I sacrifice grammar to fit something into 140 characters. #twitternovice.
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Commenter Nicholas Giotto sees a particular bias at The Collegian.
He asks, “Why does The Collegian act as a mouthpiece for Matt Shupe?”
Matt Shupe, for those who don’t know or don’t care, is the chairman of the Fresno State College Republicans. Shupe, in his energetic efforts to spread the influence of FSCR, has developed a steady presence in The Collegian with constant stream of letters to the editor.
It would be of no use for me to argue that I don’t agree with Shupe most of the time ”” a short search of my history at our website would reveal that I am a conservative Republican. But The Collegian accepts letters from people of all political stripes. In fact, we even accept full on op-eds from students. If what is sent to us is well-written and even semi-coherent, it will be published without hesitation, regardless of the beliefs it espouses.
So, please, liberals, Democrats and occupiers of Fresno State, I call on you to correct this grievance. Send us letters and columns. Space and quality permitting, they will be published.