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I’m officially addicted to Twitter.
I started tweeting since April this year and so far have over 600 tweets… I can’t leave my cell phone at home, not because I need it to text my family or friends, but it’s for the sake of tweeting from wherever. Sometimes, the thought(s) just come and I have to tweet it out (even though I doubt that anyone would be interested in reading it…). My cell phone credit is used mostly for tweeting from “mobile web” and “text” (expensive but useful when your cell has low battery) tweets. Wow. Signs of addiction, isn’t it? Speaking of reading tweets, actually, because tweets are in 140-character format, it’s hard to ignore someone’s tweet. At one glance, you may already read the tweet unconsciously. That is what makes it different from reading blog posts.
I don’t know if other people do it but sometimes when I see a long post I might just skim through it or straight away skip reading it. This is where I see the need of microblogs. I had one blog post in 2005 (when I’m still new to blogging) that only contained two short sentences (I think I’d deleted the posts). That should’ve been tweeted and not blogged.
Oh, yeah. Lately I changed my what-to-tweet-about a bit. I actually like to be witty in my tweets but I always fail to do so (*embarassing!* Akira’s style)… But I’ll keep trying. Hehe. I said before that I don’t really care how many followers I have, but I do monitor who follows me. I follow back those whose tweets I like to read. I block those who is apparently spam twitters. “Spam-like” (contained many links sometimes business-ish, & I think they expect a follow-back) twitterers – I look forward to be unfollowed.
Recently, I also found many ex-schoolmates/classmates on Twitter. Dunno why, I feel it’s easier to chat on Twitter then messaging on whatever-social-site (though I don’t have an account on facebook). The “message” can be seen publicly if it’s accessed from the tweeter’s twitter site, though. To date, I already dragged 3 people to join Twitter… Ren-chan, Mel-chan & my little sister. If you noticed, I also changed the “featured post” section to feature my latest 4 tweets… quite nice lah, at least to me. ^_^
Tweet me if you are on twitter!
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