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Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets.  Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length.  Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

So I finally registered a Twitter account for myself and set out to find out what it’s all about.

I’ve made a few posts, mainly to let people know about my websites and blog posts here.   I really doubt that anyone is interested in what I’m really doing when I’m asked “What are you doing” by Twitter!  Does anyone care that I’m chasing my 2 year old grandson? … or washing dishes?   … I think not! 

I’m also following some other users and get their updates about topics ranging from eBay and world news to recipes and soap operas.   This pretty much fills up my Twitter page and makes me feel like I’ve got a handle on this Twittering thing.  Do people really have enough time to read all of the tweets?  By the time I read one, there are 10 more on my feed.   

I was checking out some Twitter widgets yesterday and stumbled across the one you see in the right sidebar showing the Twitter posts (tweets) that I make.  

And I also added a TwitThis button to the posts here that will allow you to share a blog post here on Twitter, if indeed you Twitter, too!

The button will ask for your Twitter ID and password, and then post a URL to this blog.   You can also add a button to your browser toolbar to TwitThis for any page you might find interesting on the web.

In closing, I want to add that my favorite definition of Twitter came from Prevuze:

“The Prevuze unabashed dictionary defines “Twitter” as “Social nitwitting.”

…and that explains it to me as well as anything else does!   And answers the question about what someone is called that posts tweets on Twitter — it must be a nitwit!

Happy Twittering from one Nitwit to another!

Jan