As someone who uses an app like Twitter every day, it is easy to keep up with the latest news and current events because it is easily accessible. Twitter is mostly user-based, so often it will be regular people telling you about daily events. Most users on Twitter like to describe current events so that they can help appeal to the emotional side. As said by Norton and Company, "As a writer, you will use description in many kinds of assignments: in profiles of people and places to provide a key to their essence, in visual analysis to reveal the crucial features of a painting or photograph, in cultural critique to highlight the features of the object..."(Norton paragraph 6). Using the strategy of describing will also help the tweet reach more people, through the process of likes and retweets. Twitter itself also talks about how journalists interact with people and use Twitter as a place to talk about the news and current events. They say that the easiest way to interact with your followers is through replies and engaging with fans.
This is very different from the way apps like CNN reach out and communicate news with you. Unless you have notifications turned off, they will often give you notifications on what is going on currently. These often have attention-grabbing headlines, which entice the reader to click on them. They use more of a narrating tactic, explaining the story to you in order to grab your emotions. While this takes a little longer than Twitter, the news is just as effective and often allows the viewer to truly understand what is going on in the world.
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