Twitter is a site dedicated to these short, status update-esque, messages (140 characters long, to be precise), allowing you to update online, by text, with phone applications, and more. the idea is to quickly let everyone who follows you to know what you want them to know instantly. Popular updates include: location, going out for a party, found a brand new website, taken an interesting photo, and the standard, and omnipresent, “I’m bored” messages.

You can also follow other users, allowing you to see what they are up to, and reply directly to them as soon as they publish their update. This allows conversations to happen very easily, and quickly, from pretty much anywhere you can get a connection to a phone network. But this brings the major problem with Twitter: addiction.

Having used Twitter very recently, I have to admit that I am starting to become hooked on it myself. Checking every few minutes to see if someone has replied or published a good story, and then replying and waiting some more. It is very easy to become enthralled with such a simple concept.

Anyone can join at www.twitter.com, and best of all it is free. And as everyone needs someone they can follow, why not follow @smutchings and @bitcolumns. Giving you the updates on what is happening, as it happens, and we will follow you back. If you would like to sahre your ‘tweeting’ with other users here, just put your @username in your comment.

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