Dear, Cybie
When I left a day, for my 'cyber' activity and i ran my twitter, there was like a 2000 new tweets, and i just thought that 'oh my god! people really crazy in twitting'. So, why people twitting? why microblog now become so POPULAR (i mean extra popular?)
here is my perspective
today, internet become like a 'second diary' for some people. they don't talk too much directly, so they search for a media who can make them express their feeling about something. They want to express something that won't make others feeling offended, but they still want people know and hear about those feeling. Because I believe, people need something to express their feeling, people need other people to aware about some problems, even if it a little bit privat.
MICROBLOGGING.
why twitter is a kind of blog, with 'micro' on the first words? because if i write in blogger, i can talk much! maybe a thousand words. But in Microblog (which is twitter), we only can talk in 144 words only, and in those 'few' charachters, we can string up the words til it could represents our feeling. INTERESTING, RIGHT?
Actually, microblog is not just twitter. I know PLURK first before twitter. but, why plurking is not famous as twitting? (in case i left PLURK for TWITTER). I think it just because most people in indonesia use twitter, and 'few' people use plurk (even they have plurk, they also have twitter i think). Just like what i did
Allright, just now i signed in my plurk account, and for real! i already know what the different between PLURK and TWITTER, (honestly, i read Tamar Weinberg's blog, and found interesting article about PLURK vs TWITTER. The conclusion is :
So yes, in plurk we can have an informal discussion, and build a community, because we can comment other plurk and create a dynamic conversation there. maybe different with twitter, when we want to jump into a discussion, we should put hastag (example : #whypeopledoabortion) and we jump into the topic about it.
Tamar said, that twitter is more formal (for some people), but in my perspective, it's a little bit different. because i use it for connecting, celebrating, sometime there is a misuse (because i also use it for chatting :p). But, i agree some people use it for sharing information, and it really works! thanks for twitter, because i don't need to follow 'REG SERVICE' anymore! if you want to follow popular person, just FOLLOW! and you can update about 'em! So, the conclusion of my 'breakfast (blogwalking) + own exp + own perspective' about twitter and plurk is :
TWITTER : Chatting (even it is a misuse :p), sharing information, popular (in indonesia), simple
PLURK : Funny, Cute, Creative, Unformal Discussion
both : HAVE FUN!
wherever u post, just have fun with it! and you won't feel like "i want to share information so i should use twitter", or "i want to post trivia things, so i should use plurk" LOL, not like that! social media is a dynamic place for sharing information. post what you want, say what you feel, and don't be afraid of anything (sometime it makes you different), because it is a free world, you can post anything - of course in positive way - and say anything!
HAVE FUN!
♥ nanath