ROCKING IN THE TREE TOPS

摘要

The latest grid craze is Twitter, a free, micro-blogging site wherein entries can be only 140 characters long. Http://www.twitter.com Entries, known as tweets, provide status updates, immediate thoughts of authors, and/or reviews of lectures, movies, songs, and the like. Tweeters can also post links and photos along with their statements. It requires an amount of precision and succinctness not found in blog entries or other social networks. There is no game playing or some of the other social-networking distractions offered such as list making or survey taking. It is both a push and pull technology in that you can feed information into Twitter from other social networking applications and blogs or vice versa. It is the brevity of the posts and the relative ease with which tweets can be made from both hardware and mobile devices that make this the fastest-growing networking site on the grid. Numerous people are starting Twitter accounts just to see what all the media hype and fuss is about and, though many of these accounts are not maintained after an initial exploration and the ready uptake does not always occur, there are a growing number of regular users who are finding different applications of this tool daily.