What is Twitter (to me)?
I asked myself that very same question many times. Then I asked, “Would Twitter have any benefit for me?” My first answer was no way. Then I decided to try it, and now I’m hooked.
Twitter.com is a web based service that lets its users post a maximum of 140 character (that includes punctuation and spaces) messages. The messages can include links to web pages and links to pictures. Some people call this micro-blogging since the resulting web page is personalized and shows a chronology of the persons posts or tweets. Since Twitter is a relatively new service, there aren’t many rules other than the 140 character limit.
It seems that most people use it to post a quick sentence or two about what they are seeing at the moment, thinking at the moment, or a cool find like a good coffee shop or bbq place. And many others, use it to announce new articles on their web sites or a cool web sites they have found. Once you figure out a few people to follow (the term for getting updates from people you sign up to see their tweets).
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