Twitter

I'm gonna start with a biggie, or at least something that is getting bigger. It is hard to classify Twitter in the realm of Message board or Chat room. It is both of these but neither. It is a beast all of its own, the way I see it.

Posting is limited to 140 characters. Total. Per post. It takes some getting used to. You want to make sense and try to be complete withing that 140 character limit. It is easy to provide links to what you are doing and there are places that will reduce the size of your link down to a much more manageable size. You also want to refrain from multiple postings in order to get your point across. It will give you a character count off to the upper right hand side and once you go over the Limit, you start seeing red numbers.

There is a multitude of links, applications, tools, and other formats for twitter. One of these I tried was Tweet Deck.

Tweetdeck is apparently used by a lot of twitters. I didn't care for it purely because my Computer is apparently lacking in the Memory Department. even with 256 K in Ram and basically just running a windows XP with very little doo dads added. If you have gobs of Memory give it a try, if you want.