It’s almost ironical. Blogs are a big part of the social media and yet microblogging and social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook are potential blogger killers. At least I can say for myself.
Twitter has led to thoughts escaping the mind, followed by a few quick keypad punches on a mobile device and boom! What could have been an entire meaty blog post had just been reduced to a couple of 140 character long status updates on Twitter. All this followed by real-time reactions and mini-discussions from people all over. Twitter is the new quickly-blog-and-get-reactions blogging tool. Or what they call it in the sensible world – microblogging.
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No one could easily predict how one day digital media could give conventional media a run for it’s money. It’s the same way how no one predicted how one GUI based operating system, simple to use and more useful than anything else would take over the computing world in 1995 (yes of course Windows 95). Digital media or what it could be broadly referred to as, new media, has done the same thing.