Date: Monday, August 13, 2007
Twitter to your heart’s content!
Twittering is sweeping the nation! These short messages which can be sent instantly to your circle of friends, are becoming strangely addictive, and can even count the presidential candidates amongst their members.
Are you someone who always likes to know what others are up to, or enjoys sharing your opinions with others on all manner of subjects? Well, Twitter is for you! Twitter allows users to send messages to their friends which are less than 140 characters about their activities, location, thoughts and opinions. Whilst some argue that this craze serves no real purpose, with the messages about what someone had for breakfast seemingly attesting to this view, other twitters are actually very informative. Twitters include reviews of the latest products, discussions on current events and appraisals of websites people have just discovered with links to them. Its growing number of addicted members definitely supports the notion that Twitter is the next big thing on the Internet scene. The membership of high-profile presidential candidates to the site has raised the status of Twitter even further. Candidates such as John Edwards and Barack Obama are using the site to keep their supporters informed of their movements, and to make short statements on their policy beliefs.
Twitter was set up by start-up company Obvious Corp in March 2006, and less than eighteen months later, it has a huge, world-wide following. Although only initially designed as a research and development project inside Odeo Inc., the site has become an international phenomenon. However, Twitter does have competition from the whole new wave of micro-blogging sites, such as Jaiku, Pownce and Frazr, which all operate on the concept of users sending their friends short messages through their browsers, text messages, email or instant messages. However, Twitter is experiencing mammoth success at the moment, and with the development of the solid business plan its creators are working on, this seems set to continue.
Source: BBC News
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