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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

What is Twitter?

If you read a lot of blogs like I do, then surely you've heard of Twitter by now. It's the hottest web 2.0 site at this minute. The Wall Street Journal has more:
Though she already has a blog, a podcast and a character in the virtual world of Second Life, Kera Richard has recently become obsessed with a new online tool for connecting with friends. For the past three weeks, she has joined the crowds on Twitter.com, a site that invites everyone to answer the question: "What are you doing?"

"I didn't get it at first," said the 32-year-old Randolph, N.J., project manager for a financial services company. "How much information do I really need to let the world know about me?"

But soon she was "Twittering" a dozen or more times a day, broadcasting quick, as-they-happen updates to friends who had chosen to link to her through the service. Topics ranged from her lunch (tomato soup and a pretzel) to work annoyances (a high-pitched buzz from a nearby computer). She sent updates from her office and home computers, and used her cellphone to send posts from her car and a bar at happy hour. "It became addicting very quickly," she said.
I'm not sure I'm that social to use Twitter. Will its 15 minutes be up soon? Hello Friendster?

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