What is Twitter?

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Twitter in plain English.... " what are you doing"? That is the questions we ask friends and family. That's how we stay connected. Everybody wants to know what you are doing?

Unfortunatyely what we do everyday is hidden from our friends and family. We like to know what each other is doing but you wouldn't send a friend an email saying " I am having coffee" or " I am listening to Led Zeppelin", and do they need to know that in an email? But what about the people in our lives that do enjoy hearing what we are doing in our every day lives in between those emails?

Thanks to Twitter you can share bite size pieces of your life with the people who matter, and keep each other updated. Updates a re always short, and if you're anything like me... I like it short & to the point!!! They can't type more than 140 characters.

Twitter is free to sign up. Twitter pages look a lot like blogs with very short posts. Each page is personal and has updates from friends. Just look up friends on twitter.com and after you find some, you click "follow" and you can see their updates on your twitter page.

It can be seen on their website, software on your browser and your phone, or instant messages.

How many of you sign onto FaceBook just to see your friends status? I know I do!

You can learn so much about your friends and family with these updates. You start to paint a whole new picture of what people like. It's fun and a great way to paint that picture of what your loved ones are doing in between phone calls & emails. It brings you closer.

IT'S SO EASY TO USE. SO GO SIGN UP. Next year you won't have such a hard time thinking about what to get people for Christmas because you'll find out what they love that they've never mentioned before.

Find out what your friends are doing today!


As of March 2009, Twitter has received more visibility and popularity worldwide. Twitter is often described as the 'SMS of Internet' in that the site provides the back-end functionality (via its APIs) to other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages often obscuring the actual website itself.

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