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Twitter, the new obsession of the Technorati, is instigating a social revolution

By Ryan Catanese

November 21, 2008

What are you doing?

It’s a simple question with a simple answer, presented simply at the top of the window. It’s Twitter, the new

Twitter's Simple Layout

Twitter's straightforward layout

social interactivity tool that has swept the nation’s top media outlets and is growing more and more popular as a more informal communications tool, especially with young people.

The concept is straightforward: you have 140 characters, including spaces and punctuation, to tell the world exactly what you’re doing right now, whether by text message or a computer.  This straightforward concept has made “microblogging” one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet, according to The New York Times.

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