what is new form of communication service called twitter?

[george gallo]

i keep hearing about some communication blog of some sort "twitter" what is this and how does it work

[Bluebeard]

http://www.twitter.com

[d_r_siva]

(neologism) (Internet) to use the microblogging service Twitter

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twitter?rdfrom=Twitter

Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: Twitter

A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends or colleagues. Launched in 2006, Twitter http://www.twitter.com) was designed for people to keep others up-to-date on their activities. The Twitter site explains its purpose as "keeping friends, family and co-workers connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

Twitter expanded "mobile blogging" (updating a blog from a cellphone) into "microblogging," which updates an activities blog (the "microblog") and sends the postings to a list of recipients.

Messages can also be sent via instant messaging, the Twitter Web site or a third-party Twitter application. A MySpace account can also be updated. See moblogging, microblog, Twiller, tweet, Tweetup and Twishing.

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS (receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and Feedalizr. The service is free to use over the web, but using SMS may incur phone services provider fees.

As of March 2009, Twitter has received extensive visibility and popularity worldwide. Twitter is often described as the 'SMS of Internet' in that the site provides the back-end functionality (via its APIs) to other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages often obscuring the actual website itself. This extensibility of the service has earned it more popularity than it would have gained if users had to visit the site to use the service.[citation needed]

Four gateway numbers are currently available for SMS: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, and a United Kingdom-based number for international use. There is now also a short code for Vodafone users from the UK. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.

Estimates of the number of daily users vary as the company does not release the number of active accounts. In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4-5 million users.[2] A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranks Twitter as the third largest social network (Facebook being the largest, followed by MySpace[3]), and puts the number of unique monthly visitors at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visits at 55 million.[3]

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A free social messaging tool that lets people stay connected through brief text message updates up to 140 characters in length. Twitter is based on you answering the question "What are you doing?" You then post their thoughts, observations, and goings-on in their day. Your update is posted on your Twitter profile page through SMS text messaging, the Twitter Web site, instant messaging, RSS, e-mail, or through other social applications and sites, such as Facebook.

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