Twitter’s Latest Features

Twitter is amazing! I realize I’m a huge fan of this micro-blogging site, but it seems that others have really started to fall in love with Twitter as well. It’s been making the news quite a bit lately as they have made some major changes to the site to make it even more user friendly. But, before I get inot the exciting new features Twitter has added, I would like to think abck to where and how they began.

Twitter started out as a very simple social networking site that rapidly took flight. People were using Twitter say what they were doing - in 140 characters or less. Then, advertisers started to notice the potential for free advertising on Twitter and along came Tiny URLs.

Hence the need for the latest addition to the Twitter site. Now, along with “tweeting” what you are doing, you can search the Twitter trends to see what others are “tweeting”a bout as well. Or, if you have specific topic in mind you can run a search to see if others have tweeted about it. For instance, I’m a huge fan of John Travolta. So, naturally I would practice using the new search tool by running a search on him to see if others feel the same. Wouldn’t you know that others do love him! I was able to find a great Saturday Night Fever You Tube video and John Travolta himself! Okay, maybe it wasn’t him, but it could be! Regardless, I’m now following John Travolta on Twitter.

So, as you can tell, Twitter is becoming more and more useful to everyday Internet users. What started out as a simple micro-blog…I’m watching television or I’m at the mall, has really grown into something spectacular. From Tweeting from your mobile device to finding other users who Tweet about something that interests you, my only thought is what’s next?

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