Twitter & Blogging

Twitter is one of the most widely used social network base by people to connect themselves to the world. Twitter has different uses by different people. It can be used by a company for marketing its products or coordinate business, it can be used by a family to keep in touch with relatives, can be used by media to keep its people informed about worldly events and news, and can also be used by a writer to build up a fan base.

In twitter people can send and read messages known as tweets. These are text based posts of up to 140 characters. Tweets are displayed on the author's profile page and is delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Thus i believe that twitter is one of the best ways to share and discover information of what is happening around the world.

In contrast a blog is used to describe websites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. It is frequently updated and ranges from personal to political views that focus on either one narrow subject of a whole range of subjects. Much of the blogs that i encountered throughout my learning process with blogging, focus on particular topics that include web design, home staging, sports, mobile technology and much more. Some were personal journals that presented the author's daily life and thoughts.

One blog under technology posted by Leslie Grandy (January 2010) talked about how consumers can optimize and extend capabilities of their Smartphone operating systems because mobile devices have become much more like handheld personal computers. It mentioned that a company named FIXMO is trying to enhance and maximize the usability of Smartphone. They are planning to do so by adding features like Flame Retardant, which would automatically silence the phone during and incoming sms, call or email when the calendar notices that you are in a meeting.

Another interesting blog from Google revealed that US democratic leaders were shocked to witness the winning of Scott Lee Cohen as their party's nomination for lieutenant governer, who was arrested four years ago and accused of holding a knife on his former girlfriend's neck.

Comparing twitter from blogging, I found that twitter was much faster, in the sense that it allows quick feedbacks from a diverse group of people, although blogging also allows this feature which can be one of the similarities between the two, but it is at a slower pace. Another issue was that blogging allow indepth posts where a person can freely and easily express him/herself, whereas tweets confine us with only 140 characters at a time, and thus much information cannot be expressed in one post.

I believe that both these networks are the best social networking site that connect the world as one family. Both blogging and twitter have proven to have positive affects on the world, whereby people can meet, share ideas, share problems of the everyday life and feel secured about their lives by the network of friends they create whos care and share with them.

References:
1) www.technorati.com/technology/gadgets
2) www.problogger.net
3) www.politicalwire.com