Twitter let's you let the world know what you are doing and thinking whenever you want in 140 characters or less. Or as they say officially a social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.
I have been dabbling with it and unlike the millions of teenagers/geeks out there I don't actually have a network of 'friends' who I can follow - but it has been really useful and more instantaneous way of tapping into the information flow surrounding topics that I am interested in. Mostly by following writers of certain blogs that I read.
If you want to know more read this. This was written by a lady who got engaged via Twitter.
But here is a slightly more hard core use of this communication tool. A Californian student who was covering an anti-government protest in Egypt was arrested. On the way to prison in the car, he twittered 'Arrested.' Within 24 hours he was free, his network of followers on the web had been able to contact the right people. It's quite a remarkable example of the potential of this real-time communication. How the student was able to not just contact one person, but a whole network of supporters via the web with simply one word, and divert a dangerous situation.
Read the whole story here. It's mad.
I have been dabbling with it and unlike the millions of teenagers/geeks out there I don't actually have a network of 'friends' who I can follow - but it has been really useful and more instantaneous way of tapping into the information flow surrounding topics that I am interested in. Mostly by following writers of certain blogs that I read.
If you want to know more read this. This was written by a lady who got engaged via Twitter.
But here is a slightly more hard core use of this communication tool. A Californian student who was covering an anti-government protest in Egypt was arrested. On the way to prison in the car, he twittered 'Arrested.' Within 24 hours he was free, his network of followers on the web had been able to contact the right people. It's quite a remarkable example of the potential of this real-time communication. How the student was able to not just contact one person, but a whole network of supporters via the web with simply one word, and divert a dangerous situation.
Read the whole story here. It's mad.
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