You ever fancied yourself a blogger but failed to have the energy or time to post considerate or daft missives at regular intervals? Twitter could set your inner blogger free. While some folk call it microblogging or moblogging, I really like to think about Twitter simply as blogging for regular folks. Perhaps you are actually busy. Perhaps you do not have much to assert. Or perhaps you are just lazy.

No problem. This free service works by letting you broadcast a group SMS message to your friends’ mobile telephones from your own telephone, a rapid message or an Internet form at twitter.com. All of your notes are then stored and shown on your private profiling page on the site, which includes links to your friends’ Twitter pages, a thumbnail picture of your choosing, and a short bio. You can even send text updates immediately to your FaceBook or MySpace page. Just don’t forget to keep it short: posts are restricted to one hundred and forty characters, and the subject is, usually, “what are you doing?”. More frequently than not, it seems, Twitter’s 25,000,000 members (twice as many as it had merely six months back, according to Twitter business development director Biz Stone), are simply killing time.

Even presidential candidate John Edwards is on it, though he appears to be the sole one pondering more than lunch. As I type this, Caroline is mulling over some Girl Scout cookies, ian_hocking is “Waiting for Jessica to arrive so we will be able to eat!” and hlantz is “having a pleasant cup of Soft Starmint tea.” Exciting .

The gossip about Twitter escalated into a virtual roar last year in the South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, Tex, when the barebones service owned by Blogger founder Evan Williams, 34, was named the best blogging tool and attendees used it to meet up at parties.

Since that point, the fawning attention to the service has come full-circle as reviewers have started to realize how uninteresting most of the people’s lives actually are. ( As if YouTube’s studio of puppy and kitten videos had not already driven that point home. )

Nevertheless, Twitter has been the top term on blog search engine Technorati for the previous 12 months. Lots of folk would happily have Twitter muzzled, instead of endure the beeping alert for yet another new text. But I am gambling that Twitter will get a lot noisier before tweople move on to the following new thing. Why? Because Twitter targets the same crowd that digs FaceBook and, candidly, that site is getting off. We cyberjunkies need a new thrill, and what could be better than a service that mixes social networking, blogging and texting? Dozens of other corporations try to do a similar thing with services like VelvetPuffin and Google’s Dodgeball.

But only Twitter has worked out the easy way to make it easy. I know, it’s absolutely mad and shallow, but that is exactly why Twitter is on its way to turning into the next killer app.

And if you detest it, well, in the words of one Twit from San Francisco, “I’m so sick to death of Twitter-haters. If you do not like it, why waste your time writing, reading, or talking about it?

Well, last night’s Grammy awards showed a new feature of Twitter.  Seconds after Steven Colbert pulled an iPad from his jacket, it was tweeted and live on YouTube! It was interesting to see how it looked when someone captured the TV image on his iPhone and then sent it to YouTube and tweeted about it…This works? well, except the quality of the video is below standard…So can anyone tell me how I can get the TV feed on my iPhone so I can record it in real-time and share it with the world now?

by Jane Craford

“I survived the Twitpocalypse!” blasts the graphic on the organic cotton T-shirt available from cafepress.com.  What’s the Twitpocalypse and why should I care?  Tweets are being sent to Twitter at the current rate of 202 tweets per second.  Each tweet has a unique identifying positive number.  When the torrent of tweets exceeded the number 2,147,483,647, some third-party Twitter applications were not designed to handle this condition and would crash when their application would suddenly turn the number into a negative sequence. Thus, the verities of computer science seeped into the consciousness of everyday Twitter users.

Tweople of all types start paying attention to the tweets in the substantial Tweet Stream.  The Italian Futurist artist, F. T. Marinetti, would probably delight in the blend of popular and high culture that mixes in a Twitter stream.  Marinetti would probably recognize his ideas, handed down to us in his Variety Theater Manifesto, living in the Twitterverse.  The absurd juxtapositions, the random surprises, the illogical interruptions, when popular and elite, high and low culture are syncretized in the Twitter stream echo what Marinetti saw as the ‘great Futurist hilarity that should make the world’s face young again.’

The new meaning or unexpected perspective that is sparked by the collisions from the juxtapositions of contrasting types of information is one of the addictive pleasures of Twitter.  A mind dulled by the tedium of a boring job can be revived quickly by as little as a half hour of exposure to the effervescent Twitter stream.  At the rate of 202 tweets per second, that calculates to 363,600 tweets in 30 minutes.  The number of tweets flowing in one Twitterer’s stream, however, represents the tweet activity of only the set of people that Twitterer is following, rather than the sum of all people logged into Twitter at that moment in time.  The hilarity of random surprises would be minimized or maximized, depending on the characteristics of the Twitterer’s group being followed.  If you follow only elite, high culture-type Twitterers your Twitter stream may be less effervescent than it would if you also were following pop culture Twitterers whose tweets when juxtaposed with the high culture Twitterers could add some gas to your Twitter stream.

Twitter can be a refreshing flow of tweets that make your ‘face young again.’  At the same time, it can be a lifeline for an endangered person or community desperately seeking connection to a rescuing world. On the same weekend that the Twitpocalypse occurred, the Twitter stream was carrying immediate reportage of the election in Iran.  Twitter’s highly evolved search function sprung into action as news about the Iran election was sought, causing a proliferation of Twitter search tags (hashtags), such as  #IranElection, #tehran, #CNN, etc. that could be clicked on within a tweet to enable rapid response to the breaking news event.

Two billion, one hundred ninety-two million, ninety-two thousand and counting unique tweets have been sent since Twitters inception in March 2006.  This instantaneous global communication (for those who have access to at least a texting cell phone), like a swiftly flowing river, is cutting new shorelines and reshaping the geography of our minds at the rate of 202 tweets per second.  If F. T. Marinetti were alive, I’m sure he would be twittering and I’m sure his face would be young again.

As a user on twitter said that “addictions come in many forms…” This is true for my twitter usage, There have been a number of benefits associated with my twitter membership, but none explain my constant use besides addiction. I will list a few benefits that I have experienced using twitter. Great websites, Breaking news, Late night entertainment, friendships, a substitute for a journal, and a belief that someone is listening to me.

Among websites that I discovered through using twitter is this one. I was complaining about my life as was common, with our current economic situation. I expressed my need of a job,, or some way to make money. Somebody suggested to look at ClickBank . It goes without saying that I have, and so my hopes of finding a way to make money were not met in vain. Making such an idle comment on twitter led me here, where I am able to save up my money in order to purchase a vehicle and change my entire life standing. I have also communicated to others my testimony of tweeting and ClickBank to bring about true change in life style.

Probably the most exciting use of twitter is to get all of the breaking news before it breaks. There are websites that just list newspapers and organizations that tweet headlines. It is nice to receive constant outpouring of information via SMS on m phone regardless of where I am. Early in the morning, just waking up, in my bed. I know the weather forecasts and traffic conditions in my area, and globally. Each night as I lie in bed in that reminiscent state, I empty my mind of all the frivolous thoughts filling my head.

Through My social network, I have discovered such thoughts are actually of use to others. Above all though, I have discovered a cure for insomnia. Clearing my thoughts is in a sense therapeutic, and it is a natural way to ease my mind and prepare it for slumber. Plus, Tweeting gives me something to do instead of joining the millions of Americans who watch Late Night talk shows, I find my entertainment elsewhere. I just moved across the country, and belong to a large family.

Twitter allows me a fast and easy way to stay in contact with my friends and family. With twitter I have shared up-to-date photos of such events as ultrasound pictures, and a hike on a island that included up close viewing of live buffalo. Though I have been warned about forging close friendships online, twitter has provided me with a safety net of friends who care about what I say and always have something worthwhile to say. I really feel my life is better from using twitter.

Lastly, I always have my cell phone or laptop with me, making twitter the perfect substitute for a journal, recording my life events without pen or paper. Though not my intent or purpose, It was pointed out to me that I was being very “green” in saving trees, by not using paper. For me it was just a matter of convenience.

But when all is said and done, My true reason for tweeting remains: I am addicted, I couldn’t stop if I tried. Today I read a comment by Kate Hewlett (a famous actress, one of many Popular icons I follow) She said “What? Too busy for twitter or beer? Now, that must be really busy!”