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In my last post I was gibbering on about using facebook for business, since that post I have dabbled in the art of twitter and I have to say I am not convinced by it... yet. I am a user of facebook and it was when my housemate came back from work one day and openly said “that Stephen Fry is a funny bloke” completely out of the blue that I found out he was referring to his twitter feed.

Needless to say 30min later I was signed up and following @Stephenfry, @Wossy, @chrisdjmoyles, and a few other friends on there. It’s a Micro blogging site for those no in the know. Basically people have the freedom to write up to 140 characters in the theory that people would update it more and it would be more interesting and relevant than a blog. If you are following Stephen Fry then you would defiantly agree that people do it more often (some 25 posts a day!).

So what are its uses? I can’t see any other than I can find out what people are doing, so add me , I will add you and we can see if this is going to enrich my life... or is it just going to be another internet fad that lasts for a couple of months?

On a similar note, you can add companies, and I am thinking that this could be useful, however is it just another form of RSS and distributing news? I would be interested to hear if anyone can think of some good business reasons for companies using this as a form of marketing.

Why not also check out http://twitter.com/CapgeminiUKgrad.