Twitter

Twitter.com is a social community web site with one goal for each user: to let everyone know what you are up to at any given moment. Daily routines, from the dull to the exciting, can now be displayed in a limited text description, available for all to see.

Unlike MySpace.com, Twitter is not about blinging up your site. The sole tiny photo associated with your account, along with a customizable background, is the only graphical element that you can provide.

It’s amazing that people actually have time for Twitter at all. I find most people are chasing the clock with a “to do” list, and can barely follow it, let alone post to the world what they are doing. I do find that Twitter is a good way of putting your lifestyle under a microscope. If you were forced to add an entry every two hours, it might reveal patterns in your life that you really don’t want to know about, but want to fix. Whether you embellish or keep your entries bluntly true is up to you, but I find that this is a tool for people that have way too much time on their hands or simply can’t get enough web exposure.

A cool option, though, is that you can embed some code onto your website and have the latest Twitter entries appear there.