Twitter is a form of social media that allows people to communicate information through
microblogging. People use microblogging to “talk about their daily activities and to seek or
share information” (Java et al., 2007). Twitter is a social-networking site created in 2006 to
relay real time information to users. “The platform was inspired by creator Tim Dorsey’s
introduction of an SMS-based concept that allowed members of his then-company, Odeo, to
keep tabs on one another. The name ‘Twitter’…is used to describe a short burst of
inconsequential information” (Georgetown University, 2010).