Twitter is my all time favourite microblogging as well as social networking platform. If I found some interesting Twitter tool or application I usually
Prodromou compares the state of micro-messaging to the early days of
consumer e-mail. In the early 1990s, the e-mail world was dominated by
proprietary dial-up entities
“I couldn’t send you e-mail and you couldn’t send me e-mail,” Prodromou
explained. “We were on these separate islands. Making the change to an
open standard for Internet e-mail has meant e-mail has become
ubiquitous. I think that’s where we’re at now with microblogging.”
the once-tiny Twitter has grown like a magic beanstalk into a full-fledged communications medium — taking its place alongside Web pages, e-mail and maybe even television
Facebook may be the social medium of choice for college students, but the microblogging Web tool Twitter has found adherents among professors, many of whom are starting to experiment with it as a teaching device.
If you were out with a girl and she started twittering about it in the middle, would that be a deal-breaker or a turn-on?
BIZ (dryly): In the middle of what?
"An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with a federal charge of making interstate threats last week, in what appears to be first criminal prosecution to stem from posts on the microblogging site. "
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