What are you doing ?
I am trying hard to finish this post on #twitter that has been in the drafts for over a week now. If you are a twitter addict, the ‘#’ tag would say it all. But you’d be wondering if @roshinroy has gone insane cuzz this is just a blog post and not a 140 char tweet !
where you’d have to #hashtag key words for references:) #Fail 
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Typically, these updates are answers to one simple question – “What are you doing?” Twitter is a multi-modal messaging platform that lets you send and receive messages of 140 characters via the web, SMS, Instant Message clients, and by third party applications. Since you carry your phone with you all the time you have quick access to all your ‘followers’. A 140 character long micro-blog wont take much time out of your life.
People who have never used the service often think that twitter is for people who are incredibly boring and wish to tell others about their incredibly boring lives. Today, three years after it was conceived, twitter is less bout status updates and more about conversations.
Twitter as a social network is just like your orkut, facebook, myspace etc. But its a lot different from them all. While all other online social networks expect you to make friends with someone and then communicate with them, you can follow as many people as you want in twitter. You don’t need them to accept you as a follower, just like in real life. Your followers can watch you over weeks, months or years before they reach out and extend their interest in you, your work, your thoughts or even a common cause that you work for. All that while, you’d be tweeting about when you went to bed, what you had for breakfast, the movie that you watched, the book that you read, your neighbor, her furry cat, your friends, your city, your family, your work, your boss, you dog, anything .. Over a period of time, you would have painted a self portrait of yourself though your tweets that will be available for anybody who would want to know you better. If this sounds scary to you, keep yourself away from Twitter.
Twitter is not just growing, it is evolving. I should come back and write about some cool applications that can work around twitter…