First off, I think that this article was very interesting to read. I say this because of the fact that it is clearly visible to see exactly how much Twitter has changed over the years. It originally started as being a social media site where people could text on, and basically just write short bits of information about what you were up to in order to post for the people who follow you. Now it has become a site where people can post just about anything that they are thinking about. It can be anywhere from small trending thoughts to major controversial topics and political values. It has become one of the main sources of getting a large amount of information out to the public.

I also found interesting that the Ground Theory Methodology was used to analyze tweets in order to get a certain form of information out of them. For example, a lot of qualitative data was drawn from the GTM once it was used. Using this method has allowed for people to extract the main idea of what people are trying to get across to the public, as well as what they are thinking when they post what they do on Twitter. This way, others can research the critical numbers side of Tweets that are posted.

Within “Baby, We Were Born to Tweet” one of the very first things that you gather from this article is that the author is using a Ground Theory. The Ground theory is qualitative research, basically stating theories from the categorical data of a small group(s). The main idea within the article was to see if Wolff (the author) could collect data from people, or in this case Springsteen’s fans, without gathering “pre-conceived notations about fans, fan writing, and writing on Twitter.” I do believe that his general idea of looking at data without having an idea about the topic would be innovating, but I also do believe that it is very hard to happen with all the technology that we have now in this generation. Its seen to be that most people gather all their information from the internet and/or social media, so for Wolff to preform this research in hopes that he is completely unfamiliar with his subject is very unlikely. I believe that for this whole process of the project to work for Wolff he would need an absolute unfamiliarity with the subject/topic. He would also need to make sure that there are no demographics that he is aware of for the topic, because it can interfere with the research. This article did help very much on how topics and ideas are very generalized and tend to gravitate to certain groups and people. It helped me realize that most things on social media are very generalized to certain groups, it is very unusual when you find a tweet or a post that is directed to all people.