The other day I watched this real interesting video about how Twitter works. In case you're sitting there asking yourself: "What's a Twitter?" Here's the short answer: Twitter is a simple way for you to follow your friends online and see what they're up to without having to read emails or read their blogs. You log on and twit. For example, if I have 100 friends on my twitter, I can find out what each is doing the moment they type up an update.
Updates could be something as simple as what video they're watching on YouTube, what interesting site they've run into, what they are doing at school or work. Basically, it's like a mini blog in real time. If you are a writer, you could update your friends about what stage you are in your writing or what chapter you have just finished.
I suspect that Twitter now has nearly 5,000,000 users and is growing by leaps and bounds with thousands of people joining everyday. What I like about it is that I can plug in my RSS reader into the system and read updates at my convenience as well.
Have an article on SearchWarp that you're reading right at this moment, like this one? Well, you could twit all your friends about it so they too can come and see what you're reading! Twitter is just a nice little communications gem that helps people stay in touch quickly and effectively. It's also a great time saver. Most of all, it's free to use! The downside of Twitter is that you can only send messages up to 140 characters so it sort of functions like a text messaging service. That means that people can receive messages on their mobile phones as well, which is OK if they have unlimited texting as part of their service plans.
Twitter allows you to let people know what's going on with your life, minute by minute if you want. In my case, my messages would be kind of boring if I went by the minute. Maybe every 3-4 hours something interesting might happen that is worth letting my friends know about. So, I just started with Twitter and started sharing all sorts of mundane things that I'm doing on and offline.
If Obama or McCain have free Twitter accounts, we could find out what they're doing everyday but I doubt either one has the time to twit.
If you would like to see a video that fully explains what a Twitter is and what it does beyond the scope of this article, then watch this YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
Hi, Mario. Thanks for writing this article and giving the YouTube link. I just followed the link and watched the video you chose to explain Twitter. I'm going to mention your article in a fall newsletter and credit your link choice so others not Twittering yet can learn more. Thanks!
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