Over the past few days I’ve heard more and more about Twitter. What is it? What does it do? Why do I need an account? How’s this going to help my business? (I’m paraphrasing from emails) Brian, Carolyn and I have even talked about doing a ‘Twittersode’ on SEO 101! **BTW @doshdosh – we’d love to have you on that episode!

So first off what is Twitter?

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Twitter is great in the way that Disneyland is great… meaning, everyone has their own experience’s in their own way. To me… Twitter is a way to keep up with my friends and colleague’s. At the same time I get the freshest content on the web in ‘real time’. I started a thread over at WebTalkForums titled aptly enough “MySpace Isn’t Social…Twitter is” And… well here’s a reply from the thread:

Heck there are people on twitter who do nothing but update their petty lives every minute!
Hilarious to read through (just finished flipping through a bunch of them) and see people post: Had coffee. Good coffee.
Or: Raining outside, not raining inside.
Or: Opened the window.

I mean really?
Do I or you need to keep up with someone who posts “Opened the window”?

I guess the way you experience Twitter is different for everyone. I’ve added all of the bloggers that I normally read, friends I’ve met at SES conferences, Alumni friends, and other folks that genuinely interest me and Followed them. Following someone basically means that when they post something to Twitter you get up to 140 characters in text from them. It really is that simple… short, sweet, and to the point.