This post is an attempt to unravel the mystery that is Twitter for the youth organizing community. While Twitter is pervasive amongst the early adopter crowd, it is just now beginning to gain traction with regular internet users.
Twitter is a micro-blogging service that consists of 140 character "tweets" that are broadcasted to a person’s subscribers. Think Facebook status updates but not constrained by Facebook. The question you are probably asking yourself is "if this is essentially the same thing as Facebook status updates, why is it even useful?" Well, here are a few reasons:
* With Facebook status updates, only your friends see them. With Twitter, anyone can subscribe to your updates.
* Facebook updates are more one-way than Twitter. Twitter users can direct message or reply to tweets, creating two-way communication.
* For the most part only people that go to your profile will see your status updates. Twitter updates are sent directly to subscribers.
* Twitter works with text messages (SMS), instant messages, and online.
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