Twitter is the hot, new online phenomena, the Twitosphere, or basically the cyber world’s texting for the masses. And everyone’s twittering about it.
It’s like a micro-blog, with a 140 character limit per post, or twit, you can broadcast: “what you are doing” to your friends via a free online form at twitter.com. This little tid-bit about yourself is displayed on your personal profile page on the site, which includes a thumbnail pic of yourself, and in turn is linked to your friends’ Twitter pages. And that’s not all. Twitter can sync with all your multimedia devices and internet pages, therefore, you can send updates directly to your MySpace or Facebook page, can have updates sent as a group text message or even as an instant message online.
This way, everyone knows what you are doing-ALL THE TIME. And in our attention seeking, look at me! society, who wouldn’t love to share every little mundane fact in your head with the world? And better yet, who wouldn’t want to know about all your friends’ daily lives? We love information about other people, don’t we? Like when Maria is “waiting in line at Starbucks for her fave green tea latte” or Sam is “bored and playing Guitar Hero” or Jenni is “wondering why Steve broke up with her in the middle of Times Square.”
Even Celebs are twittering. Not too long ago, it was reported that Jennifer Anniston broke up with John Mayer, (again, but for real this time), for his twittering obsession, saying he didn’t have time to text or call her, but was able to twitter everyone else every hour.
It’s the new wave of communication-forget the old fashioned email or should I say, even more ancient, phone call. Who has time for that?
New job offer? Engaged? Dog died?
Just twitter it.
So, is twitter taking over?
It seems so. Last year the number of twitterees was at 340,000 public accounts, with a steady rise of 2,000 new members per day. Some argue that Twitter is too impersonal and will turn our dialects with each other into short meaningless conversations that are superficial and shallow in content.
Others say that Twitter is more than a mainstream new fad like Facebook and offers real connections, in a way that texting or a phone call cannot. A friend of mine recently replied to my twitter saying she never knew I wrote poetry, when I had sent a link out to my blog on my Twitter page, and we started exchanging poems via email. Another friend told me that he liked knowing the mini-events in his brother’s day, who lives across the country from him, and that it makes him feel connected to his daily life, something their random phone calls to each other never did.
So, is twitter a revolution for our social networking or the exact opposite? What are your thoughts?
Just twitter it. 
