Genre

A genre that I use everyday is a tweet.  A tweet is an idea of a person or an update on a person's life. Tweets are found on the website twitter where people are following each other to see their tweets. The audience of tweets are the followers and a younger generation of people. Most people with twitters range from the ages 13-30 so the tweets are aimed at that age. The audience expects these tweets to be short and somewhat entertaining. Each tweet is constrained to 140 characters keeping all of the tweets extremely short. Tweets also have a new idea called "hashtags." This new idea is basically putting the number sign before words and this makes the website put tweets into different sections of the website and allow more people to connect that share the same values and ideas.

Tweets are just like facebook statuses in a sense because they are about each individuals lives and are supposed to entertain. Tweets are also made to inform or persuade just like facebook statuses. Also these social networks are made so you follow or friend people you care about. Every social network is similar in this sense of finding friends or similar people to get information. This is the same for facebook, tumblr, and myspace.