Getting Into Twitter

Although I’ve been registered for a while, I hadn’t started using Twitter until recently, and now I’m starting to really enjoy it. In case you haven’t heard, Twitter is an online "community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?" You answer this question on your phone, via IM, or on the twitter website. At first, I didn’t think I would find this useful because..well…I was afraid that it would be a bunch of annoying messages (on twitter, these are called "tweets") that were the tweeted equivalent of IM status messages ("watching tv," "out to lunch", etc.). What I discovered, though, is that there are some good twitter’ers (not a real word…yet!) that continually post interesting information among their more personal updates. Tiny URLs abound with links to interesting stories on the web that may have not been "blog-worthy", but are worthy nonetheless. Following these people on twitter makes the twitter service very useful as a source of breaking news. For a quick list of twitter’ers to follow, check out MG Siegler’s blog post: "Twitter: Who To Follow."

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