Madeleine, one of my co-contributors, is a Twitter fan, and in a previous post she explained how to get involved. Although I have read a fair bit about this new form of communication, I have struggled to get the point, and to see why I should join in.
Twitter is a short message service -- messages are limited to a maximum of 140 characters. This length restriction makes "tweets" (as Twitter messages are called) equivalent to cell phone "texts" (properly called Short Message Service or SMS messages) but with a difference: Text messages are essentially one-to-one whereas tweets are essentially one-to-many.
If you're also wondering, Mark Gibbs in this PC World article provides about the best short introduction I've so far seen.
(But I'm still not sure I'm convinced it's for me.)
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