What exactly is Twitter?

[Shana]

It's just another one of 8 gaZILLion ways to keep in touch in this world!

Cause, you know, we don't have enough ways to talk to our friends that don't involve actually SPEAKING to them!

There's a website...just search Twitter...they'll tell you it's all really cool and great, but you get the exact same thing and more by using the status update feature of Facebook or Myspace.

It's supposed to be better, cause when they started it, you couldn't do mobile phones with FB and Myspace, but you can, now, so I think it's just a waste of time.

Anyone can check in and see what you have posted, and anyone can subscribe to your feed, and get it automatically. There are spammers there, like anyplace else on the web, and I get a request to follow me (you can set it up so that people have to ask, and you can reject them) from someone questionable just about once or twice a week. The ones that haven't had their accounts removed before I check on them have all been porn sites, or trying to sell stupid junk I don't want. I block them, and report them, and when enough people do so, their accounts are removed.

I follow a couple of celebrities, and I hear, if you tweet them, some will tweet you back.


Of course, none of this has anything to do with languages, which is where you have posted this.