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We all know Twitter, and we all know what it’s about and how its eventually cure AIDS, cancer, and the next big disease; all with 140 characters! Cool, eh? Blogging on the other hand is much more.. complex, I guess.

So let’s get to the point..
Why?

It’s simple, Twitter is bigger, better, faster, stronger. Now let’s take this point by point:

• Twitter is bigger:
  You know that saying “If you build, they will come”? Yeah well, you don’t need to build much on Twitter. There’s an audience already, with little risk of losing them. All you really have to do is just make a bit of noise and you’ve got some followers. Interact with people, more followers. Wait, if you follow me and I don’t tweet much or tweet occasionally, are you going to monitor me and unfollow me in a week or two? Highly unlikely I believe. On the other hand, you have to build your blog to get traffic (I’m not too good at that), visitors and even build more to get loyal readers and even more to keep them! Would you buy an old beat-up car for $1,000,000 or a nice shiny Ferrari for $100? It’s no-brainer.
• Twitter is better:
  How many celebrities have blogs? Not many. How many have Twitter profiles? A lot. That says something and not that we should all tweet because that’s what the celebs are doing. They joined because it’s they can reach people and interact (or they’re manager suggested it and they agreed), how are they supposed to do that with a blog? They can inform with a blog, but not really reach. As for us normal people, we can interact, share, and connect with people (not necessarily people we know) using Twitter. If you fail with Twitter, you can always talk to the bots.
• Twitter is faster:
  I could’ve tweeted the main idea of this post in no more than a minute. I’ve spent more than a minute writing this post. Twitter is simply faster. Do you want me to spoon-feed it to you?
• Twitter is stronger:
  Which would you rather read, a 140 character message or a 2 page post about a single thought? The tweet gets you thinking, the post just tells you and might get you thinking just a little bit. Although feedback on Twitter isn’t that as great. I usually have tons to say about something. Let’s just put it this way, syrup in little cup has more flavor than the same amount of syrup in a jar.

Now I bet you’re thinking “Why is this in a blog if he says tweeting is better?”, am I right? Of course I am. Now blogs are of course better in their own way. If I were to tweet this it would a little something like this:

Tweeting is better than blogging, it’s just much faster to get quick thoughts across!

Different than this post huh? Blogging is more detailed, depends on the writer really. I’m not trying to pick at blogs or the blogging world but Twitter is a ‘micro-blogging platform’ (cool name they gave it, isn’t it?). Which means they both connect somehow. It’s all under this big tree called ‘Freedom of Speech’. Again, going back to the name, micro-blogging- mini-blog. Like everything nowadays, smaller = better.

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