When Twitter is just beginning, almost nobody wants to pay attention. Day after day, the registrants has been pouring in. Now, the popular Twitter micro blogging service is everywhere. Twitter has millions of registered members, and is still expanding.
The Twitter phenomenon brought by industry is not really new. Micro blogging exists even before the company was formed, but no one dared to enter the kingdom of 140 characters.
But even my friends in the blogosphere became addicted to Twitter when they tried it. Their normal jobs every day in their posts was reduced to 3.2 posts per week. Why? Because you can be found on Twitter and you can "blog" and share everything they do as much as they want, even hour by hour. It is certainly a place where you can post your thoughts several times and no one will think you're spam.
Fast forward to today, there are a host of upstarts who tried to compete with Twitter, but failed. Some are thriving, but it cannot even come close to what Twitter achieved. Twitter also has many parodies, including time-woofer, the site posts a 'macro'. When 140 characters is not enough, you can use your platform of no more than 1,400 characters, and that is the minimum.
Even large companies join the fun. Recently, Google launched Google Buzz. In fact, not a rival to Twitter, but more as a testing ground for Google, and they are using the Gmail name for testing.
Facebook and other social media websites has built a status update, publish their thoughts for the day or a particular time. Microsoft for its part had long been developing an application that works similar to Twitter and renamed it the Bureau of the talks. But of course, with better features. Have been using internally to company employees only, and is now being considered for it, outside of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.
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