TWITTER is ALL the RAGE on The Internet- or is It?

As some of you more up to date internet savvie people may already know 'Twittering' has been sweeping the internet at an alarming rate! People are twittering all over the world with each other. There are some users that have hundreds, thousands even of Twitter friends, and followers logged underneath them! This is huge even by internet standards my friends. You can send a 'twitter' from your computer, your phone, your IM, almost anywhere that you can send an instant text message! You can be walking down the street and send an instant 'twit' to so and so to let them know that you are bored and you are on your way home. Just because you want to.

The owner and CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, won the 2007 South_by_Southwest Web Award on March 13th, 2007. They did their acceptance speach in, you guessed it, 140 word or less! www.twit.tv/natn15 Interview with Evan Williams.

To 'twitter' or 'twit' for short is to in effect send a short little 140 or less character IM over cyberspace for anyone to see. Yes, I do mean anyone! Unless you take measures to make all of your 'twits' to be only personal they will be broadcast all over the internet for anybody to see and read. This is possible and is easy to switch on, but this losses the broadcasting abilities of the whole Twitter network, which in my editorial opinion is the best feature about Twitter! You can also send personal 'twits' to just your friends, contacts, if so desired and not over the web plane. All optional.

Thinking of Twitter in a broader scheme of things I tend to lean towards the broadcasting that could be brought in by using Twitter. Think of all the people that are reached with just one little sentence on one little 'Tweet'? Thousands. Think of all the marketing potential there is in this idea. Priceless if used right. Evidently I am not the only one to think so, because in researching this and another article that I recently wrote I ran across another article stating from the developer of www.twittervision.com himself, that John Edwards had joined Twitter and was broadcasting his campaign messages through Twitter.