1. By Markus Garcia  Twitter truly breaks down boundaries. Last week my Social media class set out on a mission. Our Mission to get former Red Sox’s pitcher Curt Schilling to come be a guest speaker for our class and talk about he uses social media. However instead of conducting Mr. Schillings PR representative my class took to twitter. All at once my classmates and I tweeted at Curt Schilling asking him to come and talk to us and to show our unity we all used the #relieveourprof. As we flooded Curt Schillings twitter with requests local news medias began to retweet us, even a hotel in Boston offered Mr. Schilling a free room in their hotel if he agreed to speak with us.  Most surprisingly within two hours Curt Schilling tweeted back at us saying “Ok, I hear you guys! Have to check timing, but flattered you asked!” Let me repeat that within two hours Kurt Schilling one of Boston’s biggest sports athletes said he would check to see if he would come and talk to my class. If we had gone through his PR Agent there’s a chance we never would have been replied to. That’s what makes Twitter and these other social medias so great. It allows people to go straight to the source they want to talk to and it can be about anything. THey could write and tell someone they had a great game, they are upset with a company’s product, or they can complain about something that was said…it allows them to go directly to the source.  Most recently ESPN faced a crisis when one of its former employees wrote a a derogatory Slur regarding Jeremy Lin and another incident when an ESPN Anchor said the same derogatory slur in an interview with an NBA analyst. Immediately after the statement was made Twitter exploded attacking ESPN for its word choice.  This is the type of world we live in now. The moment that something happens that we don’t like or don’t agree with happens we can make our voice heard. Or if something amazing happens say a game winning three we can hit the internet and let our reaction be seen and even talk to those who are sharing this experience. Twitter has allowed people from all over the world to connect with each other and create a common voice. 

    By Markus Garcia 

    Twitter truly breaks down boundaries. Last week my Social media class set out on a mission. Our Mission to get former Red Sox’s pitcher Curt Schilling to come be a guest speaker for our class and talk about he uses social media. However instead of conducting Mr. Schillings PR representative my class took to twitter. All at once my classmates and I tweeted at Curt Schilling asking him to come and talk to us and to show our unity we all used the #relieveourprof. As we flooded Curt Schillings twitter with requests local news medias began to retweet us, even a hotel in Boston offered Mr. Schilling a free room in their hotel if he agreed to speak with us.  Most surprisingly within two hours Curt Schilling tweeted back at us saying “Ok, I hear you guys! Have to check timing, but flattered you asked!” Let me repeat that within two hours Kurt Schilling one of Boston’s biggest sports athletes said he would check to see if he would come and talk to my class. If we had gone through his PR Agent there’s a chance we never would have been replied to. That’s what makes Twitter and these other social medias so great. It allows people to go straight to the source they want to talk to and it can be about anything. THey could write and tell someone they had a great game, they are upset with a company’s product, or they can complain about something that was said…it allows them to go directly to the source. 

    Most recently ESPN faced a crisis when one of its former employees wrote a a derogatory Slur regarding Jeremy Lin and another incident when an ESPN Anchor said the same derogatory slur in an interview with an NBA analyst. Immediately after the statement was made Twitter exploded attacking ESPN for its word choice. 

    This is the type of world we live in now. The moment that something happens that we don’t like or don’t agree with happens we can make our voice heard. Or if something amazing happens say a game winning three we can hit the internet and let our reaction be seen and even talk to those who are sharing this experience. Twitter has allowed people from all over the world to connect with each other and create a common voice. 

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