My friend just told me about this Web Site called Twitter.com. I just signed up for it and made my first post which was pretty easy to do. From what I can tell, this site is all about just having a place where people can describe what they are doing at that very minute. The site allows for you to use a real image of yourself, or an avatar.

Right Now I’m reading Stephen Wright’s Twitter page. It’s worth it to sign up just to read his “every day, one quote”

“I intend to live forever, so far, so good”—–”I lost a button hole today”—–”it’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it”

But seriously….This is an interesting example of Web 2.0. It allows for RSS, so you can have a link right to someones Twitter page. It seems like a combination between a Blog and instant messaging, although not quite as instant. In fact, I just successfully added Steven Wright to my aggregator. The company that created Twitter is called Obvious. They have a blog as well. Their goal is “to create things that matter to the world. I don’t know how new Twitter is but I could definately see this being a popular thing for people to add to their MySpace or Facebook pages and it’s certainly kind of fun to check out the types of things other people write about. In fact I’m going to see if I can add the Twitter “Badge” to my Blog. Wish Me luck. In short, I guess this is another fun way to stay connected using Web technology. Apparently you can update your Twitter page by sending a kind of IM through your cell. I haven’t got that far, but there seems to be this circular communication thing happening. (IM, Twitter, MySpace…..)

Twitter has an interesting Blog you can check out as well. They have some interesting links to other people/Articles etc.. through Del.icio.us. (theres a link to a NYT article about the creators of Twitter.) They have an archive on their blog going back to August 2006. So, maybe this is about one year old or so. This seems like one of those things that could be addictive. I think they are on to something here…