Right now I think Twitter is the most exciting app to hit the web in a very, very long time. People often hear about the concept (coworkers included) and think:

"What’s so great about Twitter? I don’t need to tell the world whenever I do the stupidest little things."

And they are right, you don’t need to tell the world that - so don’t! Use Twitter for something else, something more interesting.

I learn so many new things from the people I befriend on Twitter, and I only follow a handful of people. I get all the breaking sports and world news as soon as it happens. I get all the latest rumors in the tech world as they happen. I get to follow the lives of some pretty interesting people. I get entertained. I get to see pictures of some whacky experiments and some bleeding edge technology.

It wasn’t until I saw a friend tweet about the new iPhone firmware upgrade that I realized I could now access the iTunes WiFi store. It wasn’t until I got a tweet from Barack Obama that he had a rally in NYC that I could watch live on my computer.

Twitter is pretty much the coolest new way of communicating online OR offline, period.

Today they launched a new service for Twitter which lets you track any mention of a certain keyword on their entire public chat network. Simply texting "track iphone" to Twitter instantly put me into the conversation of thousands of other Twitterers and what they thought of the new iPhone update today.

Such a simple feature but one that changes everything about how the service works. Used to be you needed to know who you wanted to follow on Twitter OR scan the public timeline by hand to see what people were talking about. Now I can choose to receive messages from people I may not already know, but who are talking about something I care about.

I absolutely love Twitter. It is the future (hell, the present) for online communication.

Category: Social Networks, Tech

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