Yes I admit, I am a Twitter addict. In fact my Facebook friends who aren’t familiar with Twitter probably think I spend all day updating my FB status. That’s actually just coming over from Twitter. Does that make me any less of a geek? No, actually that’s probably arguably more geeky, but I just thought I’d point it out.

The way I describe Twitter is that it is an open group chat where you can type a question, comment, what you are doing etc. and have it seen by all of your twitter friends (and anyone on twitter who happens to look). They can reply to you if they have a comment or an answer. The great thing about this is it lets you put things you are thinking of or working on out into the internet cloud and wait for a return. It’s passive communication at its finest.

For example - the other day I was asking a friend on twitter a question about a new prototyping application called Balsamiq. The creator of Balsamiq was also on twitter and was receiving alerts on any twitter post related to Balsamiq. The result was that about 2 minutes after my post I received a personal answer from the creator himself. Talk about customer service. I was impressed.

Anyway - enough of the blabbering. I read this article about the birth and creation of twitter and really liked it. It was interesting to see how it started and read about the process that led it to what it is today.

Here is the artcle: http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/

If you aren’t on Twitter yet. What are you waiting for? Sign up today and hey - add me as a friend. My Twitter ID is jdawg.