Twitter Is a Web Site That Allows Users to Publish

question 41

Multiple Choice

Twitter is a Web site that allows users to publish micro comments. It allows users to create accounts and publish short messages not exceeding 140 characters. Interested people can follow a person's twitter account and the messages published by him. Many celebrities in the United States are active tweeters and have a number of followers. Twitter is an example of a ________.

• A) social network
• B) blog
• C) wiki
• D) microsite
• E) microblog

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Definitions:

Attitudes

Psychological tendencies expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor, reflecting how one feels about, thinks about, and behaves toward some aspect of the environment.

Motivating

The process of stimulating someone to act in a way that achieves a desired outcome.

Dual Attitudes

Different evaluations of the same attitude object held by the same person (perhaps one deliberate, the other automatic).

Automatic Attitudes

Quick, reflexive responses that reflect immediate evaluative judgments, not requiring conscious effort or awareness.