Article Writing - Technology Blog

Article Plan

-Short opening sentence about subject of article

- Give brief explanation of what twitter is

- Write about how it's becoming more popular nowadays & include "there are 100 million active twitter users" quote from PR Daily

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Twitter's Recent Rise To Fame

As social site Twitter takes its rise to popularity the public begin to question - is Twitter really that essential to our daily lives? Twitter is a social network used by a large percentage of the public which, since it's launch in 2006, has been constantly increasing in popularity. As the "20 Illuminating facts about Twitter:2012 edition" article states, "There are 100 million active Twitter users, 50 percent of which log in every day". The site is a way for users to update their followers on their thoughts, feelings and day-to-day activities, giving the rest of the public the opportunity to retweet or favourite the tweets they find interesting.

Evaluation

What do you still need to find out? I still need to find out who uses twitter, what people use it for/why they use it, people's opinions of it, statistics and facts about twitter.

Are there any other ways you could use some of this information? I could use this information to argue against people's opinions

Can you use even more of the sources to liven your piece up or can you use fewer and include more of your own ideas? I can include more of my ideas about the site and use my own opinions

Analysis

When writing this article introduction I had to take a few things into consideration such as the audience and layout of the piece. I kept the writing fairly formal as the purpose is to inform rather than to entertain. As well as this, I included a quote from another blog and referenced which blog it came from. This adds background information to the piece and shows the readers where the original quote came from incase they want to look into the story more. I included an introductory sentence explaining the basics of what the article is about and also included a rhetorical question as people will stop and consider the question which was asked. This makes the reader think and encourages them to read the rest of the article. I kept the introductory paragraph fairly short as it is only used to explain the purpose of the piece and give a brief definition of the subject matter.