With so much technology and social media platforms in the world, how
does one go about managing all of their accounts? Are they kind of like me and decide
when they want to check another account or post the same thing on a different
platform they have to first log out then log in to the other platform to say
what they want to say? I can tell you from personal experience that having to
log in and out of different accounts is complete overkill. By the time I have
logged out of one and in to another I have all but forgot what I was wanting to
post. This is where aggregators come in to play, but first let’s define what it
means for all of you non-social lights out there. According to Google an
aggregator is a website or program that collects related items of content and
displays them or links to them. More simply put an aggregator takes out the
hassle of needing to log in and out of platforms to get the same message
across. Honestly, I did not know what an aggregator truly was until I looked up
the definition. Although I have few social media platforms I am active on, it
turns out I have been it to link out all of my messages.
In one of the articles I read I found something that I thought was
interesting. As a business, it may be stretched across numerous platforms. On
one platform the user may want to target one audience and target a different
audience using another platform. What makes an aggregator an effective tool is
the business can choose what platforms the message gets linked to. With that being
said there doesn’t exist an aggregation tool that can seamlessly manage all of
your platforms. An issue developers are running into is what exactly an
aggregator should do because social sites are used in different ways by various
groups of people.
Through my findings I have learned there exists many aggregating apps
and websites with many of them targeting specific platform areas. An example of
this is the tool called Tweetdeck. This tool was designed mainly for people who
considered themselves to be tweeters. Since its creation, it has evolved into a
comprehensive platform which services Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace.
Aggregators are a huge milestone achievement in social media. It has
given people to ability to link out what they are saying across platforms; thus
saving finger cramps from repetitive typing among other benefits.
I was the same way. I had no idea that these tools even existed before doing this assignment.
ReplyDeleteAggregator platforms are so helpful and really make life so much easier and less time consuming!
ReplyDeleteI could use these tools better!
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