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Whether you are a member of Twitter or perhaps you have come here to learn more about it before taking the plunge this is the place for you.

This is an ongoing blog and so please visit as often as you can as new information will be added as it is received. You will find lots of information to help you on your journey and you can ask those all important questions that have been bothering you.

….. please.

What’s it all about?

Twitter has become a phenomenom but for the novice can be difficult and for the expert too restrictive. This is where you can get the best of both worlds. Information for the newcomer to Twitter, more ‘openness’ for the experienced and the opportunity to ask questions and to discuss your ‘Twittering’ experience.

I joined Twitter a few weeks ago and at first was not impressed. On thinking about this it was because I did not understand it and what it was trying to achieve. Not one to give up I persevered and slowly started to understand it’s complexities – which suddenly were not that complex!

Being attracted to it via certain ‘celebrities’ mentioning it on the television or in the press, I thought I should at least find out what all the fuss was about and not dismiss it until I had give it a chance. Confusing it certainly was but addictive as well and one of the first things you have to learn is to restrict your time on it otherwise your day’s will pass and you will wonder where they went.

So, this blog is for you, whether you are a novice or an expert.

Enjoy Twitter. Enjoy Twittering and enjoy meeting other Twitterers.

Twitter’s Twitstory

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained extensive notability and popularity worldwide. It is often described as the “SMS of Internet,” in that the site provides the functionality (via its application programming interfaces) for other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages, often obscuring the Twitter service itself.

Four gateway numbers are currently available for SMS — short codes for the United States, Canada, India, and an Isle of Man-based number for international use. There is also a short code for Vodafone users from the United Kingdom. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via e-mail.

Estimates of the number of daily users vary, because the company does not release the number of active accounts. In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4-5 million users. A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranks Twitter as the third most used social network (Facebook being the largest, followed by MySpace), which puts the number of unique monthly visitors at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visits at 55 million, however only 40% of users are retained. In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a growth of 1382%, Zimbio had a growth of 240%, followed by Facebook with a growth of 228%. Wikipedia

Twitterings Tweets

This blog contains many sections of interest which are designed to inform, educate, amuse and in some instances be confrontational. The main theme is Twitter and it’s workings but as well as this it goes on to hopefully encompass a broad section of interests not in the least the following:

• Blogs
• The Forum
• Magasin
• The Senate
• Spotlight

Be sure to visit as often as you can as updates are undertaken on a regular basis and please, please mention this blog whenever you can.