Can we educate ourselves with Twitter?

Life itself is an important teacher of living beings. Human life is filled with many challenges, and those challenges turn into the experience ( called life lessons). We learn from each aspect of our life. Whatever we do, every work is done by us is a lesson that educates us. In today’s world, a new teacher has emerged, commonly known as social media. The question asked says that can we educate ourselves with Twitter? My answer is yes, and we can educate ourselves on Twitter in a different manner and on different topics.

Digital gadgets have replaced books, television, radio, and a new world created by these gadgets called SOCIAL MEDIA. FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, WHATSAPP, YOUTUBE, and many more are popular social media. These platforms are used for entertainment, gaining knowledge, business, conversation, communication, and many more. On Twitter you can also use GIFs. Click here for more information. The fact that draws our attention is that social media has become new normal for educational purposes, especially during this pandemic era.

Twitter is a social networking app for sharing the brief message, which is called tweets. It is a platform for personal and professional growth and enrichment. Twitter allows only 140 characters in length, which is considered a useless social media sharing portal by many. But in today’s busy life, reading long wall text is impossible as there is a lack of time, and the posts on Twitter are brief, which consumes less time and up-dates the minds reading it. There are many ways in which Twitter helps us to educate ourselves in less time. 

They are:

• Using Twitter as a specialized news channel will help to stay up-to-date on topics of interest from all over the world.
• Twitter is a great tool for connecting, exchanging views and ideas with experts in a particular area, whether it be your field of work or field of interest.
• Twitter can be used as a search engine, with more than 500 million registered users, an abundance of searchable information passes through Twitter.
• One can participate in Twitter chats regularly scheduled as online events where the conversation is held on a specific topic between different people.
• Building a personal learning network is an essential way to use Twitter to build your image and encourage your self-confidence.
• Participating in the backchannel, which is generally any secondary means of communicating information. Through backchannel, one can discover what is thought of the audience and members, and it will help one see the world from a different perspective.
• It is also an excellent platform for creating their online learning communities, allowing the learning process to be shared publicly using hashtags.
• It can be used to gather links and content.
• Participating in Twitter steam lets one feel the pulse of the conversation. You might get motivated or inspired to jump in and start a blog, create videos, or show and share your work.
• It can help us to find jobs, events, and publications.
• Twitter has gone mainstream and one can use tweets in academic papers as reference.
• If one wants to learn things or subjects of another country, then by subscribing to a learning account, like learning a foreign language, one can get connected to the account and can increase their knowledge in that file.

Twitter carves a niche for itself as a legitimate source of information. Many educational organizations and online colleges are investing in Twitter to provide relevant and quick information to current and potential students worldwide.

There are several educational accounts on Twitter related to different subject areas, whether history, science, psychology, earth, environment, law, people, culture, customs, languages, cuisine, and many more. One can connect with peoples from different countries and learn their language, cuisine, and many more.

Users of Twitter share conversation, engage in conversations, and build a relationship. Twitter is known for the days used by teachers for sending assignments and work as they find it easy to tweet assignments by linking sources and pages. This micro-blogging portal is used for entertainment and can have a huge role in building knowledge of users’ interests. It saves time and fills our minds with a brief idea about our interest’s news or topics. Everything has its importance in life if the ant is small. Still, her struggle during collecting food for winters and clamming walls multiple times gives inspiration and motivation for living a prosperous life in the same way. However, Twitter has limited words, but the small that much is important to us to be up-to-date and know about something. 

Small knowledge is more valuable than knowledge. So, there are many ways to educate ourselves from Twitter. Knowledge is everywhere. It’s our choice from where we have to learn. All social media has a source of information; likewise, Twitter also has its source of information only difference is the word limit is much less than others, but it’s good for those with a tight schedule.