Twitter

[ithildin]

Anyone out there want to explain to me what exactly it is? I mean, how it it different from AIM or other such chat programs? I'm not ashamed to admit I just don't get it [g]

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[merriman.livejournal.com]

It's not so much a chat program as a mini-blog. You can post tiny entries, a few lines long. Quick little updates. It's not really chatting because you aren't conversing with someone the same as you would over AIM or gtalk. You can direct posts at a specific person but it's not a private conversation.

I used it when I was in a class on using online tech for school media centers. I don't use it much anymore since the only people I was following at the time were my classmates.

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It's useful if you are travelling and don't have time for a proper post to let people know how you are doing in a sentance.
Its good as if you want to you can receive peoples twitters to your mobile (you can choose whom and switch them on and off at will)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. That makes more sense now :)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it would be a good thing for travel, or if I were at a job with no net access and only my cell phone for text massages.

[merriman.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

I have a friend on my other LJ who somehow saves her twitter entries over the course of a day and has them posted on her LJ once a day.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hedgewytch_/]

yes I set one up thinking how cooool! but then most of the time I forget I have it ;o(

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hedgewytch_/]

Like most things.
I seem to be signed up for so much lol