Tweeting on Twitter

Twitter has been in the news a lot in the past weeks:
* rumors of being courted by Facebook,
* huge traffic numbers,
* tweets from the courtroom, and the surgical suite and congress.

Here's the 411 on Twitter.

Twitter is an open micro-blogging service. It enables its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Do you need a twitter account?

Maybe, maybe not. Although there are a lot of people on Twitter, unless you can establish a specific reason for your company to be on twitter, I would say just wait. Go and secure your name and/or your companies names by signing up for a Twitter account.

The upside of Twitter, it's easy to use, with plenty of 3rd party tools to extend your ability to interact with Twitter and to track usage.

The downside of Twitter, you are only talking to other people who have a Twitter account.