Twitter is a mashup of three things: social networking, instant messaging, and blogging. While the blogging aspect is limited to 140 characters, there are a wide range of client applications that have been built to integrate Twitter into people’s daily routine just like IM. Where things change is when the IM gets social. Unlike Facebook and Linkedin, you can interact with your social network in real time.
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March 25th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
[…] If you weren’t paying attention, or attending SXSW, then you may have missed it. It is called Twitter, but given the buzz that it has been receiving lately you would not assume that a startup with such […]