#81. Love social media. After having spent a week in England learning about digital journalism which explains my absence from this blog, I hope, I have been converted to Twitter. Twitter is where people go to micro-blog. It’s like Facebook for the SMS generation. You get to follow people and they get to follow you. It’s all very flattering really plus you get say what you want in 140 characters.
Pithy is good. It’s a life lesson
And so it was with great excitement that I received the following news today.
It’s social media tools like Twitter and Facebook — that are providing the opportunity to create networks and foster a sense of community around common interests — that helped Barack Obama get to The Oval Office
As for my own Twitter-use, it may not be the first time I have been called a twit but it is the first time that I’ve enjoyed it.