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I think Twitter is very interesting. It is a norm in today's society but definitely a part of a revolution in history. People use it to convey thoughts, express opinions about current events, post pictures and just share what they want to share about themselves to the world. I say it is interesting because there are many different uses for it for different people. You can also attain valuable information by following certain educational twitter users, read articles that people post and see the world from different perspectives. Generally when things occur throughout the day of a regular 'tweeter', depending on what it is, it may or may not be tweeted about. I think the question is why they tweet what they tweet.

Teleological time is of the essence when it comes to Twitter. People do not tweet things randomly. There is a reason, and there is a cause. It is inevitable that cause-and-effects are the gears that get our lives in motion. Same goes for the Twittersphere. For a simple example, if users are about to devour the most delicious looking meal, they'll tweet about it. If they feel strongly about a current controversial issue, they'll tweet about it. Now let's think outside of the box. One can directly cause someone they never met before to tweet about something they normally wouldn't have tweeted about. If I stepped on a piece of gum that someone else spit out in the subway, it can cause me to tweet about it. There are innumerable lives that are being lived simultaneously. If that one little gum spitting action caused me to tweet about the stupid gum situation, that also led to a retweet from one of my followers which also caused a basketball player that follows that follower to read what I wrote to his teammates, resulting in a tweet about 'favorite gum' from his teammate, we can think about the endless possibilities of tweets effected from constant actions from people's everyday lives, let alone one gum spitting action. So it is not surprising to overlook Teleological time as the most influential kind of time regarding twitter, because after all, everything is caused by something.