Week #2 - Privacy and Excel

After last weeks lectures on Privacy on the Web and the use of Excel, I considered my own Entrepreneurship Project Idea further by relating it to our discussions. In terms of privacy, Twitter has made it an option for its users to protect their profiles from non-followers. Since I personally make my tweets private for my own protection, I would hate to have the unique ability to tweet my music selections and have it be inaccessible to non-followers. Therefore, along with my original Entrepreneurship Project Idea of creating a function to tweet a song that produces a link with an audio clip on Twitter, I would also add the ability to personalize whether these tweets were private or of access to the public.

An important part of creating the Musical Tweeting idea for me was that potential followers could be found based on overlapping interest in favorite music styles or artists. With the privacy function, I think this inhibits the purpose of the Musical Tweeting option. The current Twitter privacy option cannot hide specific tweets but only your entire page. Therefore I would create an option on Twitter specifically for the public view of the Musical Tweeting. If people still felt the need to keep their musical tastes private, this could be an option too. Ultimately, I think it would be important to allow people who want their Twitters to remain private (like myself) but allow others to see solely their music posts, to have this option.

In terms of the lecture on Excel, I see no way spreadsheets can be helpfully integrated into my project although it gave me a good addition to my idea. It relates back to Rubin's previous lecture on Twitter and how it is becoming more of a place for searching for job opportunities and internships. I made this connection when Professor Rubin mentioned that Excel tasks like Pivot Tables, Charts/Graphs, and Cell Functions are all valuable things to put on your resume. Therefore I could see it being quite helpful for Twitter to make a function of adding your resume onto your Twitter profile (possibly in the biography section) for potential employees to market themselves better. This could also be something customizable in terms of privacy since your resume is a personal document. Ultimately I see my idea to advance Twitter with a Musical Tweeting option and a Resume Upload option as only a few ways to improve one of the fastest growing Social Media sites out there today. It's capabilities are endless and I believe they should be further developed like so!