Twitter

„Twitter as the most important measure of human history“

It comes as no surprise that the perception of the importance of an event is likely to change very quickly because our society is also constantly changing. Consequently, new methods are needed to measure these events. One of these is Twitter’s “tweets per second” (TPS), which is considered as today’s measurement of important happenings.

Although I must admit that the amount of tweets per second is a good indication of a special event, I do not think that it is the most important measure of human history. I doubt that all of the events with a huge amount of TPS are highly significant for human history. However, I do acknowledge that Michael Jackson and Beyoncé, both of whom broke a Twitter record, might be important for music history, but they might not necessarily be considered important for human history as a whole. Therefore, Twitter can be a good indicator to support the statement that something was important but it cannot be the only measure for the importance of an event.

On the other hand, if I think about the measurement of the significance of an occurrence, I cannot come up with a much better solution than Twitter. I do not think that a lot of technologies can gather the immediate reaction of the people all over the world and convert it to reliable statistics in a short amount of time. Since most of the people are tweeting regardless of the fact that nobody cares about their tweet, Twitter can easily get the numbers. Unlike other statistics, people are not asked actively to participate in a survey and therefore Twitter does not have to spend money to produce these statistics.

In conclusion, most of the times Twitter is rather useless to most of the people but this can change going forward. I even might have found one of many business opportunities for Twitter…