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I first came across twitter a while ago, but I have only recently started using it on a regular basis. In recent months it has suddenly exploded in popularity and this has prompted me to make more of an effort to understand it. Watching the recent TED speech by it’s founder certainly contributer to my curiosity.

It seems that, the original idea was for it to be used to let groups of friends and colleagues know what each other is up to using status updates. I couldn’t really see the benefit of this and quickly passed it off as nonsense. But it has matured from that point where it is now a fascinating informal communication channel. By following friends and people I’m interested in, I have found a lot of interesting links and opinions, passively by scanning through the feeds.

People’s opinions of twitter seem polarized - I don’t think the silly name helps. I also find the open nature of the system promotes a casual dialog to interesting/famous people who would otherwise be distant and unapproachable.