IBM employee Andy Stanford-Clark has wired his home automation system so that it sends a tweet when windows or open or lights are turned on. The home also sends a tweet when a mouse is caught in a trap. Andy's twittering house can be found here on Twitter. Take a look:
Yesterday, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, head of Her Majesty's Government, became the first head of government (at least, as far as I can tell) to officially embrace Twitter.
Is this a momentous occasion? It's hard to say. Politicians have been increasingly embracing various forms of social media. Nowhere, for example, do more elected officials actively write blogs than in Europe.
Some have suggested in recent days that Twitter is going mainstream. Perhaps that's the case as well.
The 10 Downing Street Twitter is using Twitterfeed to publish news from the 10 Downing Street website's news feed. They also have one tweet that was entered directly here.
Stuart Bruce appears to have been the first to report this on Twitter. He has also blogged the news.
The U.S. government is behind the UK when it comes to Twitter. There are some U.S. congressman on Twitter - see here, here, here, here and here. The U.S. State Department has a Twitter here for its Dipnote blog but the White House doesn't have a Twitter.
Update: Online Journalism Blog says it was Dave Briggs who first tweeted about the Downing Street Twitter not Stuart Bruce. Briggs beat Bruce by a little over an hour according to Tweet Scan.
A lot of bloggers are still discussing Twitter, a service that lets you post tiny posts (140 characters) from the phone, web or instant message. This type of blogging has also been called microblogging. Here is a chart from Technorati that shows a growing number of Twitter-related posts over the past 180 days.
You may already know that Twitter was a big hit at SXSW. This was where the big upswing in Twitter posts started. Since then Steve Rubel has been asking if people will blog less now that are twittering more. Dave Winer offers some thoughts on Twitter's future. He asks whether Twitter will have competitors. Tara at HorsePigCow blogs about why Twitter matters to her. She has been using Twitter since last May or June. Hitwise offers more Twitter traffic data.
Meanwhile, some bloggers are already ready for Twitter to crash and die. Some argue that Twitter has already peaked or that it is just a fad. For example, Web1797 thinks that "Twitter will flame-out before the end of 2007." Creating Passionate Users reminds everyone that it is the face-to-face interactions that matter most.
Like many other bloggers we have also set up a Twitter for Bloggers Blog for random thoughts or ideas or for stuff that's just too short to blog. We also didn't want to be left lonely and twitterless. Twitter might be more useful to publishers if you could have Twitter on your own domain but that's definitely a feature or service that could (and should) be added in the future. It is impossible to accurately predict what will happen with Twitter but Twitter does seem to have already reached a traffic level that makes it unlikely to just fade away -- especially with zealous Twitters like Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel.
For Twitter noobs there is the Twitter Fan Wiki which has links to lots of articles and resources. Webware has also posted a Newbies Guide to Twitter. Even professionals can make use of Twitter -- Web Worker Daily list eight reasons why.
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