Blogging Time

Twitter can be said to have taken the communication through the internet on an altogether another level. It is much more than a social networking site. Some people look at it as “Tumblelog” while many others have this perception that it is an extravagantly huge chat room. Well, to face the fact of the matter, it is much more than all of these things and a considerable step forward. Twitter has been brought on by the developers of Odeo, a directory and also a successful search engine for RSS syndicated audio & video. Twitter is fast becoming a fun and a really cool way to share stuff and talk to all your friends.

Twitter is loaded with many utility features. You can use it for tumblelog wherein most of them act as links compiled together and many online discoveries to indulge into. However, it’s popularity is increasing as many bloggers use them for their artistic and creative endeavors. The really short-story idea of tumblelogs makes it much simpler for all artists showcasing their new photos and artwork. And all these works really well in Twitter, because the submission is extremely simple here. The web interface of Twitter that has a simple text box, is fairly easy to get things done. You can even use your cell phone by setting it up and using the jabber instant messaging for getting the latest updates and also the IMs from your friends.

You can now say that Twitter is really multiple web applications on one platform and is undoubtedly taking the Internet Relay Chat, IRC to the next level. You can now talk right through the browser, through your cell phone(that you have set up) or the jabber client. The users here, are not restricted to a single protocol. Now, this is the freedom that really sets twitter apart from the regular IRC.

There are a lot of things in Twitter that you can customize without making it look bad. You can customize the design, change colors, the background image and some say that no matter what you do with it, it won’t look bad as some of the other sites and services tend to get. Apart from the interface aspect, Twitter is great on the usability front as well. Everything is very simple to use. Right from posting entries to adding friends, everything happens on a single click. Commenting on the articles and updating your website or blog is extremely simple here. Everything looks like it was well thought out and has been executed greatly which you can really see.

The community on Twitter has some really cool people posting. Interacting with them is great fun and lot of them have also posted videos stating the reasons why they use and like Twitter. Micro-blogging has been really made simple in Twitter and the simple functionalities allowing users to publish brief text updates and micromedia such audio clips and pictures which is simply incredible.