About a week ago two of my friends (@ghorab and @fk82) assured me twitter was unbeatable and that I was wrong to abandon it. So I gave it a re-shot. At first twittering on the main website was annoying. I remedied this by downloading TweetDeck and it made a hell of a difference! I was able to keep track of posts, mentions, people to follow...etc and learnt the jargon of #'s and @'s fast :).
Twitter is an awesome way of following the news. Its not just the mainstream news that you can follow but everything from political figures's opinions to entertainer's feeds and regular peoples' thoughts. You can follow blogs, websites, friends, activists, entertainers, ...etc.
Twitter is the heart of the micro-blogging world. It's easier to write on since the posts are limited to 140 characters. On the other hand you cant fit a detailed post into the 140. Will this make a difference? Will the micro-way see the 'au revoir' of macro-blogging? Will I stop posting here? I don't consider twitter posts as real "written" blog posts. They are just an update like a facebook status. So I guess I'll continue to populate this useless blog with more useless posts :). If twitter takes anything away from this blog it would be time. I spend a lot of time on twitter keeping tracking of worldly updates.
If you're not on it, give it another shot...and follow me @tgaaly. See you in the twitter-sphere!
