Twitter - more than just a micro-blog,..it's a lifesaver!!
Twittering, a haiku-styled instant message that can go out to anyone on the planet, including your friends or followers, is the high-occupancy vehicle lane of the Internet. We started with Web sites and blogs; now we've evolved into micro-blogging tools (like Twitter and Facebook) and stand-alone applications like Adobe Air's social network applications that let you send streams of updates, giving you a few seconds of fame on the virtual podiums of your choice.
Beware of the possible charges of leveraging Twitter on your mobile phone.
On Monday, I told you about Twitter, how I use it for advertising this blog and interacting with Facebook. Today, Charity forwarded me a CNN story about James Karl Buck, an American journalism student who sent a one-word tweet—"Arrested"—when he was arrested while covering a protest in his adopted home, Egypt. That tweet alerted his friends to his fate and set in motion his release, thus proving that Twitter has some serious uses, other than telling the world what you're doing, marketing your blog, and updating your Facebook status.
Twitter - more than just a micro-blog,..it's a lifesaver!!
twhirl is a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
Some of twhirl’s features:
When a Berkeley grad student was jailed in Egypt for taking photos of a demonstration, he Twittered the word "ARRESTED." His Twitter followers (Egyptian bloggers and American friends) called the college, the US Embassy, and the international press, and the police soon released him. Of course theoretically he could have just called someone, but that wouldn't be much of a story. [Mercury News]
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Here's a quick look at Twitter and some cool applications that have been designed around Twitter for searching, as well as going Twitter-mobile!
Updated on Jun 20, 08
Created on Jun 17, 08
Category: Computers & Internet
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