Power in Twitter

On our groups, we chose and analysed a text which was of someone's twitter news feed. We looked at this text and discussed the different power which is used throughout the extract which we looked at. We looked at the different power which was used by the different people which were featuring in the extract and the power which the account holder has whilst using Twitter.
We found that when using Twitter there is both influential and instrumental power which is used. For example, if you are a celebrity then you have an instrumental power due to their title, so they often get followed by people that want to know what they're up to. However, many people on Twitter have influential power as they often get followed due to their tweets being funny/interesting which draws attention.
Another power which people on Twitter have are the functions which are used daily, such as the option to "unfollow," "follow," and "block" people which you do not want to have visible on your time line anymore.