Twitter is online application partly blog, cellphone/IM tools and social networking site, designed to let users answer the question “what are you doing?. Users have 140 character for each posting or Tweet to say whatever they care to say.
Twitter is launched last march 2006, the numbers of registered and the amount of attention the site has received has grown considerably in the first have of 2007. A lot of people talking about it and plenty are using it, including some presidential candidates, well known gurus and celebrities. In any case, twitter is not an individual but a group of people, an organization, or an event.
After creating an account, you can personalized your profile page and enter tweets into a text field. Unless your tweets are protected they appear on the public timeline page, which display all public tweets in reverse chronological order, like a series of “micro-blogs”
The experience of using twitter has been described as walking a room of conversation and looking for a “hook” to decide if and when to jump in. While some other people find the public timeline interesting and collect hundred or thousands of friends and followers, may see the value of Twitter in keeping connected with a select group of colleagues and acquaintances through shared space.
Twitter can be time eater. If you intact with site through cell phone, the SMS charges can accumulate rapidly, and the sheer number of updates-particularly if you have large number of friends or friends who are active user –can be unwieldy.
