All the World's A-Twitter

See the World Through Twitter

BY JIM KARPEN

I I probably didn’t need to know that EvilMinx from Wisconsin is “working in a funk today.” But I did, thanks to his tweet that came to me courtesy of Twittervision.

Huh? You know about Twitter, right? No? Well, where you been? It is, yawn, yet the latest thing in social networking. Why does something as silly as this get covered in Time magazine, the New York Times, and just about every other major media outlet?

Simply put, people who use Twitter (twitter.com) typically answer the simple question, “What are you doing now?” in less than 140 characters.

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