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	<title>A piece 'a Me &#187; twhirl</title>
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		<title>Why Twitter trumps IMs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few thoughts I had as to why using Twitter is better than Instant Messaging: It encourages brevity, so wastes little time, and makes you think before you write. It makes it easy to see at a glance if something is relevant. It can produce some priceless quotes. It&#8217;s social &#8211; everyone can read your public feed. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a few thoughts I had as to why using Twitter is better than Instant Messaging:</p>
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<li>It encourages brevity, so wastes little time, and makes you think before you write.</li>
<li>It makes it easy to see at a glance if something is relevant.</li>
<li>It can produce some priceless quotes.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s social &#8211; everyone can read your public feed.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s private &#8211; direct messaging allows private exchanges.</li>
<li>You never miss anything &#8211; if you log in after 2 hours offline you can scroll back and read what you weren&#8217;t around for.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s simple &#8211; effective, efficient and no-nonsense.</li>
<li>You can use it on the web, on the desktop, on your phone, and it never loses any value as a result.</li>
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<p>Just a few things&#8230;</p>
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