I have been using Twitter for some time now. Even some of my non-tech savy friends are using it.
There’s nothing quite like Twitter. It’s a web site where you can post up to 140 characters. Facebook’s status updates come close but not quite. Here’s why i think twitter is far better.
First of all you don’t have to use the web interface to post updates. You can send a text message to a special twitter number. (the reason for the max 140 characters probably). Also there are litterally thousands of twitter apps for the desktop. But where I find it most useful is on my phone. There’s hundreds of different iPhone twitter apps, but the one I prefer is twitterfon. I can post updates wherever and whenever i need to. Search the public timeline within the app itself and of course check updates from the people I’m following.
As you follow more and more people, your screen fills with a scrolling display of their jokes, recommended links and a lot of “what I’m doing right now. As of now Twitter is still for early adopters and geeks but this is changing. Large companies use twitter for news updates like the NY Times, DR Nyheder , CNN and Starbucks. Also celebrities are embrasing twitter, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and the most powerful man in the world President Barack Obama.
So what exactly is twitter? A powerful news tool?(twitter was the first media to report the Hudson plane crash) or just another Internet time drain or a useful way of sharing links and to stay in touch with friends(and followers)?
Twitter is whatever you make of it. Use Twitter the way you want, or don’t.
Great blog and hope to have some time soon to come back and read more!