Twitter Review

Tweet Tweet! With a 140 Character limit Twitter is one of the new social networking sites that is rapidly rising up to the top. Pretty much if you haven’t used any of its competitors’ services (i.e. Facebook, and Myspace). They all give you the ability to post status updates. Pretty much short things like “going to the mall be back l8r”. Or “I just took a dumb now i want cereal”. Twitter is mostley just that. Status updates. To send a “tweet” (what Twitter calls sending a message) you can either tweet from the website from your cell phone via sms even from your iPhone. (Just search “twitter” on the App Store and there are a gazilion apps available.) You get a limit of 140 characters (letters numbers symbols etc.) to state what your doing. You can get all your friends on Twitter and you all can follow each other. Following someone or followers are the people you subscribe to and the people who follow your updates. There are so many other things you can do with twitter. But one of the most amazing things is how many times its helped solve crimes save peoples lives and secret intelligence! There was one story where a college student was in Egypt on vacation and his peers all used Twitter and knew this. He got arrested for taking a photo of an aincent demonstration and taken to jail. He was able to tweet “Arrested.” to all his 48 followers. They called UC Berkeley, the US Embassy and a number of press organizations on his behalf. He got released. But if it haden’t been for Twitter he may not be here today! Still tweeting but now with 1028 followers! But even though there is many good that comes from Twitter there still are many bads. You need to be careful what you post to the inerwebz any way but especially something moving as fast as Twitter or Facebook is really dangerous. Like the guy that got a good job offer and he was going to take it. But instead he had to tweet “man got a great job that pays good bucks even though the work sucks”! He lost the job... Twitter is a free service that I highly recommend signing up for as I tweet always to my 300 Followers! (Sign up at http://twitter.com and you can find my updates at: http://twitter.com/dawildkid) Just make sure you are careful as what you put up there ( no last names no like street names dont say where you live and dont put anything that gives anything related to your location away.) and you will be fine!