Twitter is finding its way into becoming the shorthand of speaking. To join is easy. Just go to twitter.com and when you sign up you get a list of all the people you email to and you can select all or just a few.
The next thing is to create a twitter group. This could be church to business, volleyball groups to your kids play group list. Each group becames a file in your cell phone even. Yes the cell phone and your text message group can now easily find each other.
Will this leave the digg or the poke out in the cold? Who knows? But as Wired brought us the great article in the May issue of Wired Magazine there were a lot of great blogs about it. What is free to the public grows and guess what will get behind that? Yes, you guessed it “Advertising” Just go anywhere and the “Billboard” will arrive shortly. You may walk in the park and look at the trees and your cell phone beeps and you have a twitter- twirl, even chirp from your friend. So Tweet.
Hermosa Valley Park
The Christian Science Monitor had a great article about Twitter and being near the first to express news on the China earthquake. Like animals and birds they chatter and nearly preempt a warning word or Tweet.
Tom Regan wrote on May 22 2008 page 16 that NPR colleagues were right in the area.Credit to the 1st report goes to Robert Scoble who blogged as he saw the twitter on Google Talk about the quake. News was out one hour ahead.
Twitter is micro talk which is what my husband wished I would make a habit. Pun on micro.
The benefit of twitter is that it is instant, quick and informative. The best news reporting is for being new…for news and for short.
I wonder if it will be the way people that live so far from family can get the real story. Many a night I have had the phone ring and my brother in Tampa calls me in Redondo Beach to see if I am ok. The earthquake news worries him as I sleep after a trembler a hour earlier.
Technology is moving along just as fast as possible.
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