I don’t know if many of you have heard of Twitter. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as TwitterFon, Twitterrific, Feedalizr or Facebook.
Essentially Twitter is somewhere between instant messaging and bloging. The main question that I have though is: “Does something like Twitter have a place in the Mothosphere?” or is it only something for the truly geeky ?
If you want to follow me on twitter, you can do it here.
I have started following an twitter feed at work for non moth related stuff. It is interesting but I do not really want to think it is good for the Moth sphere. It would prefer to read a blog post that is a bit more thought through than I am going sailing or to the toilet.
However it is probably a good idea, for an event commentary. For example following the worlds would be great.
Fred is round the mark 10 meters of Barry who’s kicker is broken…. etc…