Chapter 11
Tweeting about Your Life
In This Chapter
Getting acquainted with Twitter
Reading other people’s tweets
Organizing the flood of tweets
Sending your own tweets when you’re ready to say something
Twitter on your phone
The Internet can let the world know the details of your life as it happens. How can you tell your friends right away that you found an outstanding purchase at the mall? Or that you have something stuck in your teeth? And how can you receive these vital messages from your friends even when you’re not at home? Twitter (at www.twitter.com) is the answer. The service lets you post updates as often as you want, no matter where you are. This level of detail can, of course, be a mixed blessing. A friend of ours likens Twitter to a continuously updated Christmas letter.
When you create a free Twitter account, you create a micro-blog that allows only very short entries, no more than 140 characters each, known as tweets. You can send as many tweets as you want, and some ...
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