Thing 12: Twitter

Twitter can be an interesting chat program and perhaps an effective news program if information spreads rapidly. It is much like Delicious except with people and their short texts instead of people’s bookmarks. It is much like a shorter Facebook and MySpace page and a more long lasting chat database so people can follow what you are doing on chat longer. It is the middle ground between chat and Facebook. The last thing I heard about Twitter was all of the remarks Sarah Palin makes on it and other sites and how the media immediately responds to it. Regardless, when I first heard of it, it was a site to broadcast what you were doing minute to minute anywhere you were. I just didn’t think people had all that much interesting to say other than “waiting in line at Starbucks.”