What is Twitter? Helping you keep up with the cool kids.

OK, I can’t tell you the number of people in the past few months who have asked me about Twitter (mostly my mother). Or told me what nonsense it is (mostly people who have never used/seen it before). Or told me I am too old to be using it (thank YOU little brother). Plus, you would need to have been hiding under the proverbial stone to not have read one of the million and two articles about this new social networking phenomenon. There are many people who think this is just another flybenight new fangled technie thing. Sorry, but I’m here to tell you that you need to get with it kids (you can thank me later). And here are the top reasons why:  Read more...

• Like Facebook before it (hello, 500 millionth user), Twitter seems to be one of these ones that is going to hang around. So unless you are over 70, feel like retiring into the dark ages (yes, before Lady GaGa existed), or are completely intent on making some sort of anti-social networking point – you should at least know what it’s all about. THEN you can poo-poo it to your heart’s content. Just not to me. I will thrash you in an argument about it. I’m just saying.