I am now officially a ‘micro-blogger’ — I have signed up with Twitter, a service that, in their own words is “A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?”.
The site works like a blogging platform, but with posts being kept at 140 characters of less (presumably to fit in a single SMS text message). One of the key selling points of the service is that you can add updates via the web interface, a dedicated app, or even by text message. As well as making your own posts, you can also follow other people’s updates, which adds the obligatory social aspect.
At first I didn’t see the point, but I was tempted in by seeing how other people were using it. I’ve found that, perhaps, this style of service quite suits me. I don’t often find myself writing long posts, but do like to natter about what I’m up to. The ability to text in updates is also incredibly nifty, and it’s not something that would necessarily work in the context of a full-on blog post (Blackberry users excepted)!
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