I discovered twitter awhile back and I must say it is growing on me. I know I am behind, twitter has been around for awhile! Twitter is as, Nicholas Carr, Author and Technologist put it; “…the telegraph system of Web 2.0.” and it truly is! Think of facebook’s, is “…” on your profile, you know that place where you put in what you are doing and other people see stuff like “John is planning world domination” or “Sara is doing homework”. Twitter can be described as, facebook minus everything except those little “is messages” and people love it!
I first thought it was a waste and no one would like it, man was I wrong people are addicted to it. You can follow other people’s “tweets”, what they call the little messages, and people can follow you, you can send short text messages, yeah sms on the web, to each other, you can tweet form your mobile and even instant messaging clients you can receive updates form your cellphone and rss feeds!
So what is it exactly, well it’s a website which, upon signing up gives you a small one page personalized webpage, which has a text box in the middle where you can type what you are doing right now… your tweets, or messages can be 140 characters long and can be updated as often as you wish, well within reason… 
This really is a smart idea. It has so much potential, people are already programming and hacking away at the interface and releasing applications to interact with twitter. There are also a few “Bots” as in RoBots, which are simply programs and webpages, which automatically post updates for certain events on your behalf.
I will definitely be looking into this when i get some time and I am already toying with an idea for a nice application.
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