Have you ever wished you could blog on your cell phone? If so, twitter might be the perfect thing for you. Known as “micro-blogging,” on twitter, people write updates under 140 characters - and often send and receive updates from their cell phones. It’s blogging and social networking in one - you follow people if you want to get their updates, they follow you if they want yours.

It’s a funny system - some people use it mainly for marketing, some people “tweet” when they update their blog to let their followers know, some people tell you what they had for breakfast, and some people have one-line conversations with friends (this reminds me of when I was a freshman in college & my roommate and I would email each other one liners from different rooms in the apartment - email was still kind of a novelty, and this was WAY before texting. We didn’t even have cell phones!). If you want to know more about twitter, check out this hilarious (but useful) article on twitter etiquette.

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