An article published earlier this year said that politician now has turned to Twitter, instead of blogging because it is already outdated. This is believed to be influenced by the opposite icon Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as he has been actively using twitter to voice out the opinions and thoughts during his Sodomy (ii) trial. One of the subscriber joined Twitter was because of wanting to have live feed on the case.
follow Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on twitter ;
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question 'what are you doing?', by sending short text messages 140 characters length, named 'tweets', to your friends or your followers. (What is twitter and why does it keep following me around?, n.d.)
Why is it useful?
Personal use - it is the great way to stay in touch with your friends and also, instantly broadcast your information of your whereabout as well as what you up to.
Business use - allows you to broadcast your company's latest news and blog post, interact with your customers, or to enable easy internal collaboration and group communication.
(What is twitter and why does it keep following me around?, n.d.)
Facts of Twitter (based on a study released on April,2010) :
- has more than 105779710 registered users today
- 300000 new users signing up per day
- 180 million unique visitors every month
- 75% Twitter traffic comes from outside of twitter.com
- gets a total of 3 billion request a day via its API
- an average of 55million tweets a day
- Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day
- 37% of the users tweet using phone
- employees of Twitter increased from 25 to 175
(Twitter user statistics revealed, 2010)
Can't deny that twitter is really a useful tool in this modern world.
In my opinion, blogging is now slowly replaced by Twitter mainly is because, twitter is quick, convenient and easy. Unlike blog, twitter doesn't need to come up with so many information to write. And the best thing of twitter is you can tweet via your mobile phone. (Difference between twitter and blogging, n.d.)
References:
What is twitter and why does it keep following me around n.d, Tweeternet, viewed on 11 November 2010, http://www.tweeternet.com/.
Twitter user statistics revealed 2010, The huffington post, viewed on 11 November 2010,
Difference between twitter and blogging n.d, Differencebetween.net, viewed on 11 November 2010, http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/internet/difference-between-twitter-and-blogging//
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