“What are you doing?” You must have seen this on any number of occasions on Twitter. Whenever you want to send a message on Twitter, i.e., you want to tweet, you are greeted with the welcome message just above the 140-character text-box, “What are you doing?”. Not any more. Instead, Twitter will now be displaying the message “What’s happening?”.
This new greeting message reflects the correct position today. When Twitter was started, it was mostly concerned with updating friends with personal messages. However, over a period of time, people have started using Twitter for all sorts of messages, such as reporting about incidents, breaking news, sharing links, accidents, natural calamities, updates about events, and much more. Therefore, Twitter has become the leading platform to share the latest happenings around you, your organization, your surroundings, and in fact, anywhere. “What’s happening?” therefore represents the true character of Twitter now than the phrase “What are you doing?”. This is what is stated by the Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone in a blog post:
“The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates. Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” isn’t the right question anymore—starting today, we’ve shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, “What’s happening?”
We don’t expect this to change how anyone uses Twitter, but maybe it’ll make it easier to explain to your dad.”
So, what is happening?
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