— unpredictable thoughts

The Boston Globe and 140 Sec­onds on Twitter

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Twit­ter is a micro-sharing web­site
where you describe in 140 char­ac­ters or less what you’re up to. You can
send and receive mes­sages via SMS (text mes­sages) on your phone,
through Twitter’s web­site and third-party appli­ca­tions such as Twit­terific.
If you want to talk “with” some­one on Twit­ter, you add @theirusername
to the front of the mes­sage and it shows up in the person’s replies
tab. This was a fea­ture that was added sev­eral months after Twit­ter
first launched in 2006 based upon how peo­ple ended up actu­ally using
the ser­vice. That’s been the con­sis­tent story for Twit­ter — it’s
def­i­nitely evolved beyond “I’m mak­ing an omelet for break­fast” to now
include shar­ing info about late break­ing news, mak­ing plans with a group of cohorts, etc.

BTW, Biz Stone is a co-founder of twitter.

This is a great place to exper­i­ment in the social net­work space. It’s sorta like it use to be in the old days. Sorta free wheel­ing, unex­pected, and fun.

Tags: twitter.SMS, social net­works, cul­ture, 140, technology