TwitterProbably one of the coolest things to hit the web in recent years is the sensationally huge network — Twitter. Everyone from little old ladies to full fledged pop artists [aka Britney Spears] give up their status via Twitter. From the President of the United States to Israeli Defense Forces pounding Gaza — all are Tweet’ing like mad.

First on the scene in spring 2006 via a small side project out of San Francisco, Twitter brought simple yet effective real-time communications to the web in the form of shouts (also affectionately known as Tweets). From this small side project [as Twitter puts it] developed a full fledged real-time short messaging service that interfaces globally across a mix of networks and devices.

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