What is Twitter?
Founded in July 2006, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. Twitter allows users to post text updates ("tweets") of up to 140 characters via SMS, instant messaging, email, Twitter’s website and third party applications. Users have their own profile page that displays their latest updates. In addition, users can become “friends” with one another, or simply be a “follower.” Other than reading another person’s profile page, a user can also receive others’ updates through text messages, RSS or third party applications.
Twitter itself is a free service, though users may have to pay text messaging charges to their phone carrier.
A relative new comer to the world wide web, recent statistics show they are gaining in popularity, for example:
March 2008
Total Users: 1+ million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day
The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo. In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.
You can find out more and sign-up at the Twitter.com website.
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