Twitter. Give it a try

I’ve been using twitter the past few days and there seems to be few Maldivians using it. Now most of the people who read my blog are almost always online surfing the web and chatting and stuff, so why not ask them to check out twitter I ask myself. But not a lot of people get what twitter is all about. Let me try to explain it in my own way and if you don’t get it I’ve put in a youtube video below which explains it in plain English.

My way: Twitter is just a way to communicate with your friends and family members. Let’s say you live far apart and you’re busy with your work and you don’t have time to call your friends or family. That’s where twitter comes in. You just type in what you’re doing at the moment and everyone on your allow list would be able to see your message. Twitter can be integrated to your IM clients as well as even through your mobile phones.

Let me give you an example; the other day I was hanging out with a friend and he left my place and he was going to take a train. Later I saw that he had been stuck at the train station for almost an hour. Yeah of course, he could have messaged me and told me that, but by putting that message he’s telling his other friends where he is as well. Pretty cool me thinks.

Twitter in Plain English

The video was done by CommonCraft.com. They have a lot of videos of stuff explained in “Plain English” as well.

So if you want to give twitter a try add me on twitter.com/maail. Some of the mvbloggers are using Twitter as well.