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ToraDora Ep 20<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m not the first to realise this, but I find I’m sending far more DMs (direct messages) through twitter then I’m sending emails to communicate with people. \u00a0And why is this? Well..<\/p>\n

… its not because I can write more. Only 140 char and no attachments.<\/p>\n

… its not because notification is better. \u00a0I get DM notification through my email. (not SMS, I do not have an unlimited account) So when I get the email, I still have to go into twitter to reply.<\/p>\n

… and its\u00a0DEFINITELY\u00a0not because\u00a0its more reliable.. we are talking about twitter my friends, the only service who’s ‘FAIL’ graphic shows up in anime.<\/p>\n

So why? \u00a0Simple. \u00a0I do not know the email addresses of many of the people I’m communicating with via Twitter. \u00a0And the funny thing is, I don’t mind. Despite ‘poor mans email’ as\u00a0Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt remarked, I like keeping my ‘daily chatter’ in twitter and my other communications in email. \u00a0Cleans up the inbox I can tell you!. \u00a0 Also, by having my ‘tweet’ communications in twitter, I discovered that its easier to find past communications because I do not have everything all in one place. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0There is another benefit. \u00a0Based on the medium I choose to communicate to someone, implies the importance of the message. \u00a0For example, by sending a DM, I’m implying that this communication is at ‘chat’ level. Meaning I’m either sending a quick comment like, ‘take a look at this’, or ‘congratulations’, or ‘what time are people getting together on Tuesday’? If I was to send that same message in an email, just the fact it was sent in email gives it a little more of a formal feel. Mostly because you ‘got’ the email and you have to ‘open’ it, then delete it when done. \u00a0These are very slight differences, but differences all the same.<\/p>\n

There are downsides of course, like seeing an DM or reply in twitter and still getting \u00a0the email notification, but I can live with that. \u00a0At some point I will have to write a little bit of code that keeps track of what I’m seen in my twitter client and email me only if I get something new. \u00a0Perhaps I’ll write that down the line, but for now, I’m quite happy with my poor mans email. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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