I was talking with a tech savvy newsagent yesterday and he’d never heard of Twitter. I’d be interested to know if anyone reading here is playing with it – I only established my Twitter account a couple of months ago. It’s fascinating.
Twitter helps people keep in touch. It’s also a mini blogging (news) platform for some – a good source of keeping up to date with sports scores or news as it happens if you’re following this right people.
The Blog Herald has a good report on Twitter and news habits. Most major news sites overseas offer Twitter feeds.
Mark, there’s a few good services that go beyond a push news feed too – one share trading service in the US is using it with push AND pull functions – http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/a-twitter-stock.html
Thanks for this link Andrew. Twitter is fascinating and frustrating. It’s been a challenge to get the SMS side working here but once that was resolved the news from around the world flooded in.