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What's Your Twitter Type?

Be it promoting work, informing friends of your drunken escapades or following comedian Stephen Fry for his latest witty insight, Twitter's usage has grown and developed over the past year. Used both as a business tool and a way of keeping up with the latest tabloid gossip, Twitter has overcome all the critics who thought that a 140-character blogging service had no future.

Not just that, but it is a social networking device that seemingly appeals to everyone - businessmen, celebrities, politicians and the general populous. However, it appears that not everyone uses Twitter for the same purpose. While the ability to send 140 character-long texts is open to everyone, people use the blogging services for different reasons and purposes.

Wikipedia's Ups and Downs

Mocked by academics for its lack of accuracy, beloved by students for being a 'homework tool' and utilised by everyone else to quickly become an expert on something, Wikipedia is one of the internet's most used websites. However, Wikipedia's greatest strength has become its biggest weakness - its reliance of volunteers.

When it first launched eight years ago, Wikipedia was a revelation - an online encyclopedia that allowed anyone to write and edit articles. The fact that it was free meant that online encyclopedias like Encarta quickly fell by the wayside, as Wikipedia strove to become "the sum of all human knowledge."

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