There are many important sites of multimodal communication in my life, however the most important is, certainly, twitter. Twitter is a “microblogging’’ in which you can write and receive posts called "tweets". Tweets can be up to 280 characters. It is a very fast communication and twitter also allows us to build “threads” and promote some discussions about any topic we want to or simply talk about basic things of our daily lives.

It is also possible to add links and other resources to support your point of view. Twitter is a very political social media. The trending topics helps us seeing what is going on in our country and in the world as well, which makes twitter very popular among academics, students and especially politicians.

The way in which we convey meaning is different. We need to be very brief on twitter and prove our point of view. People can answer if they agree or not and share the “tweet’’ by retweeting it. This shows us how literacy has changed throughout the years and the digital revolution plays an important role in it. Long texts are not appealing anymore, it is necessary to be quick and still be able to express what we think.

In order to illustrate everything that I have said so far, I would like to comment on an event organized by the Brazilian Linguistics Association. The name of the event is “Linguistweets’’ and it is the first international Twitter conference on Linguistics. An event held in a social media puts on view the role of multimodality in communication and how the notions of literacy have been changing over the years and this is something we need to look at.

To know more about “Linguistweets”, you can access:

https://twitter.com/linguistweets;

https://www.abralin.org/site/;

https://www.linguistweets.org/en/submit/.