I have been an admirer of Twitter since 2009. I frequently turn to Twitter to find breaking news and current trends, instead of waiting for the 6 o’clock news. Hashtag (#) is a convenient way to search Twitter to find topics. I am also a big fan of using only 160 characters; it requires concise thought and makes it easy to go through your followers quickly. With the posts being so short, it is quicker to send updates than a traditional blog (seconds versus minutes or hours). The one drawback that I find with microblogging is that sometimes 160 characters are just not enough. There’s been more than one occasion when I came up with (what I thought) was a brilliant Tweet only to find it was just one or two characters over the limit, forcing me to delete a coveted word, leave out a period or comma, or make an obvious grammar mistake to get my thought out.