by Annette
23. April 2007
It's been around for over a year, but the tech blogs have just recently made this site soar into the stratosphere. www.twitter.com is on-line messaging service which asks the world the question "What are you doing now?". People from around the world check in via mobile phone and tell you whether they are making a latte for themselves or creating a new form of payroll software. Of course, the big deal here is the ability to create large communities and share what may be personal trivia or potentially some profound technology breakthrough. Cooler still is www.twittervision.com which is a map of the world where you can view messages from Brazil, Japan, Iceland and more being shared.
This is an interesting site because it points up the never-ending need for human contact and the ability for technology to creatively solve our longing for meaningful interaction. Get ready for banner ads or a wave of corporate "word-of-mouth" marketing to show up on Twitter. But for now, it's a raw experiment in the lengths people will go to express themselves in the hope someone will listen.
