So initially I was curious about Twitter and admittedly when I first registered and looked at it I just didn’t get it. I’m not the only one and reading through some of the FAQs they offer ways to try and describe what Twitter is to your friends as it’s not as easy as you might think.
Essentially to me it’s a way of keeping upto date with what others are doing and keeping them upto date with you are doing. Using status updates – known as Tweets – in 140 characters you can let people know what you are doing and even include URLs to things. People choose to ‘follow’ others which essentially means they want to know the status updates of these people and you can also allow others to ‘follow’ you so they get your status updates.
The nice thing is that you can update your tweets using the web, IM, or even SMS. So you could be out and about and you could send an SMS and this would update your twitter page. You can also choose how you want the updates from people you are following to be received – so you could receive them as SMS message or have them on the web. You can make this choice for each person you are following.
It’s an interesting technology and since I know people from all over the world it has the potential of letting me stay in touch with people no matter where they are and feel like I am close to them even though I may be thousands of miles away in reality.
Check it out and see what you think: www.twitter.com
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here we go – testament to those ‘close’ networks we’re building via our tweets & @replies. i love the internet!