from a post by Howard Rheingold One of my students asked me online why I use Twitter. I replied off the top of my head. Openness – anyone can join, and anyone can follow anyone else (unless they restrict access to friends who request access). Immediacy it is a rolling present. You wont get the
Twitter is a Marketing Phenomenon
Twitter is a marketing phenomenon. How long will it or FriendFeed be around – who knows – but while it is take advantage of it. Check out my “Getting started Twitter page -here. Check out all the links you need for simple, professional and marketing of and with Twitter – here: – http://tinyurl.com/qqrt2a:
Twitter – in the begining
Twitter’s history is entwined with a few other Internet companies. Twitter’s founders are Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey. A few years before Twitter was born, Williams created Blogger, a popular Web journal service. Internet giant Google purchased Blogger, and Williams began to work directly for Google. Before long, he and Google employee Stone left the Internet giant to form a new company called Odeo.
one of Odeo’s products was just beginning to gather steam: Twitter, a new messaging service. Stone gave Twitter its name, comparing the short spurts of information exchange to the chirping of birds and pointing out that many ring tones sound like bird calls [source: San Francisco Chronicle].




