Microblogging VS Traditional News By Jaritza Flores-Garcia

A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries. Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Microblogging is an online broadcast medium that exists as a specific form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregated file size. Users used it to create blogs from sites such as WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and many others. They also use blogs to create stories from current events that happen in the world today. Back in the day, journalism became a tool when newspaper companies were built to give readers the scoop about what is happening in their community and in the city, but, then, both the radio and television were invented to make shows about local, national, and global news to keep viewers updated with stories. In this case, blogging cannot replace journalism because according to ThoughtCo.com’s article entitled “Why Bloggers Can’t Replace The Work Of Professional Journalists?”, Tony Rogers stated that bloggers don’t produce their own stories, instead, they used comments to voice their own opinion about the early days of blogging.  Blogging made an impact on the Internet, providing updates to and information on users about events, thoughts, and memories through blogging sites. In fact, according to The Atlantic’s article entitled, “The Rise Of The Professional Blogger”, Benjamin Carlson quoted that blogging has lowered the barriers to self-publication by average citizens, the free-wheeling fraternal spirit of blogging has become increasingly subject to market disciplines. Blogging also created sites like Twitter, which had been founded since 2006, thus making more bloggers to share information with others because according to a study by students from the University of Maryland, as of April 2007, Twitter has about 94,000 users within eight months of its launch and updates were made to describe one’s current status within a limit of 140 characters. Blogging became one of the most important tools on the Internet due to updates that were given to and shared with users so that they would know what is happening in the world today and it’s very important for them to keep in touch with the news posted on sites during their time on the World Wide Web.

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