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What suits your social networking requirements better, Twitter or Facebook? Or is your answer “none of the above?”

Twitterers gauge at the social networking options weighing in their likes and dislikes.

PollPigeon facilitates the research with the following opinion poll:

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Before writing for Twitter Journalism, I had a perceived notion that Twitter was just a fad used by self-absorbed social-media addicts interested only in news that affected them personally.

The 2010 Chicago Cubs continue to be a mystery to all parties involved, the National League Central Division, their fans and the players themselves. With the six weeks of baseball in the books, the Cubs have endured more peaks and valleys than a celebrity marriage.

Twitter is being embraced as a tool for journalists today, when only a few years ago online media was viewed negatively by many “traditional” journalists. The way information is shared has changed immensely since the beginning of online news services and is being shared at a rapid pace by everyone, not only journalists.

Kyra Kyles, a reporter and columnist for Tribune Redeye and broadcast contributor, says that Twitter inspires the topics she chooses to write about in her column and on her blog.

It’s become commonplace for political candidates  to use social media for campaigning, but recently many of them have started using it not just to express their views on an issue or to release statements of their plans to the public as in Senator Evan Bayh’s case, “Here is the video of my retirement announcement.http://bit.ly/cBhAu7” (@SenEvanBayh). They have also begun using it in ways to reveal their personality in less formal, biting ways.

The Washington Post took swift action after controversial tweets from one of its managing editors Raju Narisetti disclosed opinions on healthcare reform and the hospitalization of Sen. Robert Byrd.

Not only has Narisetti since closed his Twitter account, but the Post on Friday implemented a series of new social networking guidelines. It says the guidelines had previously been in the works, but editors “decided to accelerate the completion of [them]” after the Narisetti incident.

The Associated Press is trying something it’s never tried before with its coverage of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings.

It’s providing round-the-clock tweets at @AP_Courtside, documenting every move of the hearings, allowing the general public easy access to some of AP’s best talent, and using feedback to direct the coverage itself. And that’s not all.

Tonight I had the chance to meet Rick Murray, president of Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman that specializes in digital communication and social media outreach. He says there’s a new 24-hour news cycle and media companies must adapt.

“Today news is broken on Twitter, guaranteed. Then it goes to the Web site, and then the newspaper,” he said. “You have to know this because this is where things are going.”