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Twitter to hit the big time with explosion in microblogging

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by SciTech Shark in Web

Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging and social media site, is about to change gears.

The service where users post short updates about what they are doing has received an explosion in visitors, both in the UK and the US. Twitter has become the communication tool of choice among early adopters and the tech community, a worldwide first alert news medium and a nascent marketing and customer services tool as it has thrust itself into the mainstream.

Twitter is just about to make the biggest shift in its short history by integrating its search functions into the home pages of users. Read more…

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Tags: community, microblogging, social, Twitter, UK US