Twitter, lets you quickly post up a feeling or an opinion, has become the fad medium for the likes of teeny bopper celebrities to political talk show hosts. Unlike other networking websites, Twitter is geared towards quick thoughts. Not everything that is posted/tweeted has much thought behind it, but if you have followers you have readers. Perhaps historians in the future will use Tweets as footnotes or ESPN announcers in the year 2035 will dig into their archive while interviewing Chad Ochocinco as a guest commentator.
The drama that came from the Wikileaks information was blown totally out of proportion. It was merely information that the government tried censoring but didn’t do such a good job of doing. Google doesn’t have all the information and especially subjects that have to do with the government’s actions. The information on Wikileaks will help writers and students alike in the future.