Twitter

A friend of mine told me about Twitter and  about signing up to read John Mayer's tweets. That's how my love for twitter started, and for John (but that's another story). In the beginning I was skeptical to add another social networking website to my daily dose of online time, but on the other hand twitter has proven to me that it is time well spent. I saw this video explaining what Twitter is, and I thought I should share:

Twitter in Plain English

In a fast paced world, where people have no time or desire to read a full article before they realize it wasn't worth it, Twitter comes with a new design: You have 140 characters to express a thought, idea, feeling, share some news or reply to people's tweets. (I've written about it before when I said that it was funny how celebrities that always kept a distance from their fans, were now direct connected to them). If people didn't understand or believe in what it could accomplish, I don't think anyone that uses it thinks like that now. It is better than instant messaging for exchanging information, or better than spam email to sell offers.

The New York Times has several interesting articles about Twitter:

-Twitter is what you make of it - It can be used for anything.. From telling jokes, communicating sales or advertising your blog - anything applies.

- All you need to know on Twitter self-explanatory ;)

- Technology Doesn't Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Mind

- Putting Twitter's World to Use  - It can be used for advertising, spreading the word for non-profits, keeping in touch with fans/followers, or anything you can think of.

I can say that after I gave it a real try, I've abandoned Orkut, Facebook (logging once every couple of days) and I log on Twitter daily, several times a day. Sometimes the information seems overwhelming to keep up with. But some tweets are exactly what you need to read at that time.

On Twitter, you don't keep in touch with your regular group of people. While you can follow them too, somehow your connections self assemble and you have the opportunity to connect with random people who have interesting things to share.

I'm tweeting. Are you?