Mecca Ibrahim's Bits & Pieces - The many ways in which the experience of Twitter’s development and growing popularity is very much like the experience of early blogging

Who am I? And why might you be interested in my bits? I've written a book about the Tube called One Stop Short of Barking - Uncovering the London Underground.

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The many ways in which the experience of Twitter’s development and growing popularity is very much like the experience of early blogging - meish dot org: life, unfolding

The reminder a couple of weeks ago that pioneering blog publishing engine Blogger was launched ten years ago got me thinking.

I’ve been blogging for nearly ten years now - since it began with a W - and being involved with something from the beginning, plus passionate (and sometimes despondent) about its potential and usage in the years since means I’ve had a lot of time to watch and think about how it has matured and been used. There are certain things which we can now look back on and consider milestones in the development and maturing of blogging - like how the media responded to it, how people embraced and used it and how it penetrated mainstream web usage over time.

Likewise, Twitter.