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90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 15 10October 26, 2011CYAN PLATE MAGENTA P L AT E YELLOW PLATE BLACK PLATEC M Y K 50 40 30 20 15 10February 16, 2012Page 7LIFESTYLESThe Threefold AdvocateCatchingTwitterFeverSomething fascinating from your Twitter experience.Emerson AyalaOpinions EditorAyalaE@jbu.eduIt’s hard to imagine that only a coupleof years ago, words and phrases such as“hashtags,” “retweets,” or “I’m followingyou” would have little or no meaning at all.But as 2012 kicks in full gear, Twitter keepsconsolidating as a giant among social networkingsites.In a few years, Twitter became the go-tosource for information. Their micro-bloggingdesign allows today’s fast-paced society toknow of what is happening around the worldthrough a stream of 140-character messages.News outlets post links to their stories onTwitter, and if something proves interestingor noteworthy, people share those messagesand the global conversation unfolds. A recordnumber of 12,000 tweets per second inundatedthe web at some point during this yearWith more than 200 million users and anupdated look, John Brown University hascaught the Tweeter fever. Some students areactively using that platform to get the wordout about their music, to establish contactsfor future employment, or simply to entertainwith their hilarious remarks.In an unprecedented experiment, webrought some of JBU’s finest Tweeters to ourpages via a Twitter Q&A.One thing to avoid on Twitter.Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin:do you know who is viewingHorizons, up to 80 percent of jobopenings are unpublished.Learn how to use social mediato land you your next dream jobon the back page.GRAPHIC BY JON SKINNER9080 70 60 50 40 30 20 15 10CYAN PLATE MAGENTA PLATE YELLOW PLATE BLACK PLATEC M Y K 50 40 30 20 15 10