You could also learn how thousands of users were reacting to the numerous posts. In the era of transistor radios and television sets, one did not necessarily know what listeners or viewers yelled back at their machines, but on Twitter one can get a sense of individual responses to mediatized events.
Bonilla & Rosa
At times the instantaneous reactions are helpful in getting the word out and addressing problems that need to be brought up, social media sometimes blows events out of proportion and pours fuel on a fire that was already raging. Social media I feel has taken an issue that should have been a one time racial issue that was solved and turned it into an era of who can catch the next police officer making a mistake in judgement and turn it into a racial issue, when that may not always be the case.
