Twitter basic information

Twitter is a company founded by Obvious, in existence since March 2006, a network of social and service offering micro-blogging allows you to send micro-entries (counting only up to a maximum 140 characters). Not only by the sending interface on Twitter, but also by a specially designed program called Twitterrific, via instant messaging , and even by SMS text messages.

Users can have their “circles of friends” who share their entries. They can also make available to anyone interested. Same can send alerts to friends like channels, which follows the addition of notes, ie including just by SMS (fortunately, there is the ability to disable the notifications during the night, incidentally, would not want to be found in the skin of a user of Twitter, which would have set in your profile, many active friends and forgot to turn off the notification options). In short, this is a way of informing the world “which is what I do.” Such exhibitionism 2.0.

The authors think Twitter, not only for users of Windows. Twitterrific This is not only available for Windows, Mac users can also use it. In turn, when it comes to instant messaging service from the level – supported the AIM network. Mac, LiveJournal and Jabber protocol.

It is possible also to integrate Twitter with the website by placing blocks in their proper sites. What’s more, there are also plug-ins to popular blogging scripts, you can use to connect a normal blog with Twitter.

The idea of short blogs quickly adopted, and the number of Twitter users is growing really rapidly. Well, after a few weeks of service there can be talk of a veritable phenomenon. Phenomenon, which became interested in, inter alia, the editors of the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. It was said also that this is the greatest social phenomenon since the creation of the Internet sites Flickr and YouTube.

No wonder that, although the popularity of Twitter is currently the largest in the United States, also on the borders of the United States began to form his clones (in the U.S. alone, moreover, too). For example, in the spring of 2007, Poland entered a phase of testing two such sites – and Blip.pl Robisz.pl. Does “burn out”? How long will this fashion will remain “the wave”? Time will tell.

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