Do you know twitter? I’m pretty sure you do! Well, “Twitter actually began began as a research and development project inside San Francisco start-up company Obvious, LLC in March 2006. It was initially used internally by the company, and officially launched in October 2006.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, as well as a United Kingdom number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.” - Wikipedia.

And just recently Twitter was on the front page news as it helped a student’s release from jail on a foreign country. Well, 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student  was taking photographs on a noisy  anti-government demonstration in Egypt when he was arrested by Egyptian officials and was thrown in jail. He used his cell phone to tweet one word to his vast network of friends on Twitter: ARRESTED. One word. His friends and family quickly made actions, notifying his School, the International Herald Tribune, the Associated Press, and other media — who pressured the Egyptian authorities. He was subsequently released from jail and returned home two days after. 

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