All the News Fit to Tweet

The Twitter phenomena -- microblogging bursts of 140 characters maximum instantly to your subscribers -- is now the preferred method of communication to keep up with changes in the media and public relations industry, according to this article in The New York Times.

In essence, you are having an online conversation with dozens -- hundreds? -- of your friends simultaneously.

With Twitter, and other social networking sites providing breaking coverage of the events in Mumbai last month, even blogging seems like so last year.