There is a lot of buzz lately about Twitter, which is a new mobile communications service from Obvious. Twitter lets you establish a page on twitter.com and update it from a mobile phone, IM or webpage with short messages about what you are currently doing. If you set up a page on Twitter you can send an SMS to Twitter and it will update your page. You can also update your page from the web or by sending an instant message. Twitter can be useful for telling people where you are going or communicating with a group of friends. Short Attention Spaz calls Twitter a "a mix between IM, SMS and social networking." There was a lot of discussion of Twitter at the recent SXSW conference see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Laughing Squid won the award in the blog category of the SXSW awards. The SXSW conference even had its own Twitter account set up. You might also want to read this Twitter Top Ten.
The Twitter blog notes that even presidential candidate John Edwards is twittering. John Edwards seems to be trying out every Web 2.0 service he can.
Mashable has created a funny graphic called the evolution of blogging, cat version. It shows blogging move from Blogger (posts about what the cat is doing), to Flickr (cat photos), to YouTube (cat videos) and finally to Twitter which shows brief text messages about what the cat is doing every couple minutes.
Twitter is a not really an evolution of blogging. It is a much shorter form of blogging using SMS messages. Twitter entries are much shorter than most blogger entries. A twitter entry can only be up to 140 characters in length. We don't yet know how many twitters people will be willing to send or receive before it reaches a Twitter annoyance threshold. What's clear is that Twitter has the potential for both very useful and very annoying uses. Lifehack.org offers a post about five good ways to use Twitter.
We've set up a Twitter category on BloggersBlog.com. So far this is only the second post in the Twitter category -- we mentioned Twitter once in a post last October about the launch of Obvious Corp. Given the buzz over Twitter we expect more Twitter coverage be needed in the future.
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