Twitter, tweets, tweeters (or twitterers, rhymes with widowers, which is ironic because obsessive users can make their loved ones feel abandoned) are just some of the words used to describe this latest rage.
Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a free social network that allows users to communicate to groups of people in short bursts of text known as “tweets.” How short? Well, up to 140 characters, which can include links to stories, pictures or even video. That doesn't seem like much text with which to communicate anything worthwhile, but with the right acronyms or “initialisms” (i.e., LOL or laugh out loud) and abbreviations, you can pack a lot into a few lines.
Sitting at your computer via the Twitter Web site is one way to dunk your toe in the waters of this micro-blogging craze, but the platform really takes off when it's used via smart phones and PDAs while going about your everyday life.
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