Mobile Instant Messaging Meets Social Networking: Twitter – A Beginner’s Guide

Twitter has created quite a buzz for itself in the first quarter of this year- managing to combine the ease of Instant Messaging and SMS with the reach and scope of social networking services. So what\’s all the buzz about? Essentially Twitter gives you the chance to publish your thoughts on the fly, or tune into the thoughts and information streams of other users from around the world. The key to the success of Twitter is brevity – each message that you write can only be a maximum of 140 characters long. This has seen the rise of what has been called \’micro-blogging\’ or \’micro-publishing\’, with some users sending out tens or hundreds of messages a day to their friends, …