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Twitter is an online social networking tool in which users post 140 character updates of what is going on in their lives along with links to things they think are interesting, funny, or useful to their followers ("following" being essentially what "friending" is on other sites). People use twitter in many ways, some as a newsfeed by following prominent people or networks, some as a pseudo-chatroom by limiting their followers and whom they follow to close friends and family, and some as a microblog for updating people about the work they are doing and their personal lives.

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ver wondered where all your Twitter friends are? This one-click service shows you exactly where each of your Twitter friends are located. Here's how it works. You go to the Twitter Friends Map tool on Visual.ly (a great repository of interesting infographics and other multimedia) and then click the 'connect' button on the bottom right of your screen. Wait about 20 seconds and then start watching the people you follow magically appear on the Google map.