And thousands of users do so: one user for example woooos that “…Boston legal starts now” or another informs the world that she “… is having a shower”. For me it expresses the societal trends of our digital age and especially the web2.0 better than anyything else. Twitter displays the need of people to talk, to express themselves and to let everybody know, one is there and has to say something (It is definitely not a matter of content!).

Twitter is easy like an Instant Messenger, faster than a blog and more convenient than SMS. But is it good for something? To answer that question have a look at the list of German webworkblogger.de, he specifies 17 more or less useful applications for twitter.From the start twitter gained extreme popularity within a very short time. Since the third quarter of 2006 the social network counted more than 50,000 users. Twitterfacts.com has categorized four types of users and shows interesting graphs of user distribution. I rather was interested in Japan or China, since the most “tweets” come from these countries. (twittervision.com) To follow up the success of twitter.com several mobile service providers such as cellity create mobile applications to ease the use of twitter with your cell phone. (see also list of other mobile applications). And the lists get long and longer, even for copycats.