Now the elections are over and the ANC has won (surprise!), words like party can again refer alcohol fueled dancing, cope can return to being what you do between parties and vote can again be what do you for the singer that wailed the least on Idols.

Moving on to the important stuff

I’ve long avoided Twitter in favour of Facebook, because I really didn’t see the appeal of 140 character blog entries. In limitless-bandwidth country Malaysia, I can upload photos and videos and surf my friends’ contributions on Facebook until I get RSI in every piece of cartilage in my body.

With Facebook I’m so busy connecting with my friends, in many more than just 140 characters at a time, that I don’t even have time to meet them for dinner or drinks.

Then Facebook shot themselves in both feet before cutting themselves off at the knees by wanting to be like Twitter. I, and I’m sure many other people who like to ask the odd question, thought ‘what’s so great about Twitter?‘. So that’s when I signed up – about 2 weeks ago.

Twitter is like what Facebook is now, except it’s a lot simpler. No f’ing quizzes for one. Videos and pictures are simply linked out via your 140 character post. Twitter is simply for short, concise communications in 140 characters or less.Wham, bam, tinyurl m’am.

And thanks to their own effort, Facebook is now seeing a lot less of me, because my Twitter updates can automatically be fed through to Facebook, meaning I really only have to go on Facebook every now and then to check for events, birthdays and new editions of photos – assuming of course I can find any of that in the mess they created.

Oh, here’s the important issue I wanted to address.

Do you twit, or do you tweet?

If Twitter was used by only dumb people like me, ‘to twit’ would be just fine and would seem almost logical. Twitter. Twit. Get it?

However, for business, and those who like to pretend they’re a little clever, do you really want to say ‘my company twits?‘. It’s like there’s a word missing between company and twits: are, employs, entertains, services, insert-your-word-here.

My point-in-case is this email I got from AirAsia this morning. AirAsia is a big, low-cost carrier who’s quite with-it. Except when it comes to Twitter. Then they’re… well, twits.

Twitter is the noise that a flock of birds makes. One bird on its own, however, tweets. Therefore, my fellow Twitizens, as a collective, we twitter, but as individuals, we tweet. So, tweet and win your way to Taipei. Get tweeting now. Pay attention AirAsia.

So to answer my own question: I tweet.

Now an even more interesting question is what do you call somebody who Twitters? Are they a Twitterer or a Tweeter?  There’s something I won’t lose any sleep over…