Twitter is the Most Minimal Newspaper….

There is just NO STOPPING the Twitter train!

Are you in  your midlife years or as Dr. Wayne Dyer refers to it as the "the afternoon of your life?" Then this new tool "TWITTER" is a real phenomenon! Every day I am learning new things about how to connect with like minded humans who are sharing the same path. Like many of us in the Free Agent Nation, I work out of my home and sometimes experience a sense of isolation.  About theonly thing I miss about my past corporate life is being able to  just wander out of my office to the nearest water cooler to catch  up on the latest office gossip and experience a sense of camaraderie.

Welcome to Twitter the microblogging site where in February of this year the not quite 3-year-old San Francisco-based company says its user base has grown by 900% in the last year alone. A hint that investors see the twitter potential where skeptics don't,  is  the company recently accepted an additional $35 million in venture capital.

Hey every age group is jumping on board…"NPR's 92-year-old Daniel Schorr, a Twitter neophyte who said last week of his new habit, "All of a sudden I've discovered this whole way of a civil society existing by simply being able to talk back and forth to each other by way of cyberspace.

"It's a revelation to me and I love it."

On a new free Twitter service I discovered this morning…on Twitter of course, was TwitThis.com and one of the top stories on this service is from the LA times…a link is provided below for the full article.

"Don't fear invasion of the mindcasters."

It's people-powered media in action. And yet a Time magazine columnist wondered this week, "Could a service that seemed to be designed specifically to provide its users with incessant interruptions, empty of almost any meaning or importance, really succeed?"
Nah, seriously? If Twitter was nothing but a way for the masses to meaninglessly interrupt each other, it wouldn't have attracted the deafening media buzz in the first place, let alone millions of users, or a hyper-caffeinated developer community that cranks out new tools every day that allow users to search, sift and harness the geyser of content that Twitter has become.

You only need to spend a few days playing with Twitter to see that, rather than being the latest vapid fad, the simple service is powering a new economy of…

…info-sharing and connectivity. Ask people who have made a career out of studying digital media and idea exchange, and you'll get more superlatives than scoffs.
Twitter takes the concept of social networking and blows the doors off it. Because it's a public messaging system – more like radio than e-mail – you don't need to be real-life ‘‘friends" with a person to tune in to his feed, you just need to be interested. That means you have the unique flexibility to program your own information stream. And once you do, you quickly find you're not swimming alone.
In a way, Tim O'Reilly of Reilly Media, suggested, this is journalism writ small. "Twitter is the most minimal newspaper."

For the full article go here:http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/03/on-twitter-mind.html