My addiction to Twitter
Twitter is,
a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. (Wikipedia)
I first found this unique social networking site in January of 2007 and thought it was a very interesting concept. However I found that I had no friends on it leading me to rarely check it which of course lead to me never updating it. Recently Twitter has become more and more popular in the mainstream and has gained quite a strong following in the geek community; and as a card carrying geek I felt obligated to give tweeting a chance again.
I found a few people and organizations I wanted to follow, especially during the 2008 election coverage. This got me hitting Twitter fairly often and I began to update. It felt good to do these little 140 character tweets as I had stuff I wanted to share or vent about, but not enough for a full blog post. You can access Twitter through their website, their instant messenger bot, SMS from your cell phone our a Twitter client on your computer or smartphone.
Well as I have what I like to think is the smartest of the smartphones, an iPhone, I figured I’d start playing with Twitter clients on that first. I downloaded one, then another, and soon enough I had about seven of them installed. Each has it’s strong points and of course it’s weak points. Playing with the applications has become as much fun or maybe even more fun then actually using the service! After a short bit of time using applications on the iPhone I ventured into the numerous applications available for the Mac. I think I may have settled on my applications of choice, but I think half of the fun is playing with the new ones that come out almost every day.
For thsoe of you who haven’t used Twitter yet, give it a go. It’s easy to setup an account and even easier to use. You can find me on Twitter as dwaxman.
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