I am a big fan of Twitter. If you are not familiar, Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees (Source: Wikipedia)

Absolutely there are many advantages and disadvantages. On the positive side, Twitter has made communications super fast considering that we are coming from the third world. (A few years ago, communications with our relatives overseas were expensive. Now, you can easily send your message to almost anyone in an instant as long as he/she has an account (of course!). It’s the SMS of internet. You can let out your views for the world to see. Your message can be read anywhere in the world. [Read more →]

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