What's up with Twitter Personalities?

Like most everyone in the 1st world, I use the internet on a daily basis. Surprising right? I know, it's practically a given, but the fact that it has impacted our society in such a short amount of time is crazy to think about. We are constantly on phones or laptops, streaming movies, playing games, and checking up on what our friends or doing, perhaps even seeing what their dinner was on Instagram. The connectedness of the world now is stunning, and we are able to reach each other with information in so many ways now with all different forms of social media. One of the biggest and most popular forms of social media is the brief, short and to the point Twitter, the app in which I'm sure we're all aware limits the conversation to swift 140 characters. To put that into context, if I were writing this on Twitter, the app would have cut me off on my first use of the word "society." As short as that may seem, that's what makes Twitter successful, the celerity of the subject matter within each tweet let's people scroll through their browser with ease, avoiding super long paragraphs your aunt would post on Facebook. Celebrities and personalities have flocked to Twitter for this very reason, to get their message out and easily maintain a relationship with their audience. I recently followed ten Twitter personalities to see what they typically posted; these people range from comedians, politicians, actors, and musicians, and while there may be some overlap within each pop cultural genre, it is clear that they do have specific audiences they are targeting. Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy are three brothers who are creators and hosts of several different comedy podcasts, and they're also (excluding Travis) editors for Vox's gaming website, Polygon. They post typical things that would make you laugh, but they also advertise their shows and try to get people to listen to them. The politicians or political pages I followed are Secular Talk, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, all of which are what I would define as having a progressive left message. Maisie Williams and Lin Manuel Miranda comprise the actors that I follow, and they typically talk to their fans as well as post fan art, advertise their stuff, and post interviews they were in (oddly enough, Lin Manuel Miranda is a good friend of the McElroy brothers, so there is some cross collaboration going on their between Twitter accounts). The musicians that I follow are Death Grips and Lewis Del Mar, two bands that while different, still post about their music and artistic ventures that they take on. So, while Twitter at some times may seem a bit artificial with such a short character count, it does let people bring up topics and spread information, which is what social media is all about!