Social Designs

A very popular instant messaging system that lets a person send brief text messages up to 140 characters in length to a list of followers. Launched in 2006, twitter was designed as a social network to keep friends and colleagues informed throughout the day. However, it became widely used for commercial and political purposes to keep customers, constituents and fans up-to-date as well as to solicit feedback. Messages can be sent and received via cellphone text messaging (SMS), the Twitter Web site or a third-party Twitter application. A MySpace account can also be updated. To follow a Twitter feed, the Twitter site and feed name become the URL