The Oregonian’s Steve Woodward has a nice article on Twitter for newbies:
Here’s how it works: You register for free at Twitter.com. Then you find people to “follow” — those whose text messages you want to hear above the roar of the “twitterstream”: an estimated three million public messages exchanged daily among Twitter’s 1.3 million users.
Twitter is tiny compared to other online social networks; MySpace gets 72 million monthly unique visitors, Facebook 36 million. But Twitter’s recent explosive growth is a harbinger of an entirely new form of communication: citizens microblogging their thoughts and observations continually from home, work, coffee shops, airports, street corners — literally anywhere they can use a laptop or a cell phone.
More than 31,000 twitterers have signed up to follow Barack Obama, making the presidential hopeful one of the most-followed stars in the twitterverse.
Even among hard-core users in metro Portland — we’re among Earth’s top 15 twittering cities — Rick Turoczy [of Silicon Florist] is one of the twitteringest. He follows more than 1,500 other twitterers, is followed by more than 1,100 and has sent out nearly 5,700 tweets.
Before Turoczy sends his final tweet this day, he will have traded more than 150 messages with 28 friends and followers.
Don Park twitters all the time. I do not. I singletask. Like the quiet. That’s how I’m able to post nearly 8,000 articles on DailyWireless. I should figure out what’s wrong with the comments, though.
Steve Woodward is one of my favorite writers at The Oregonian. Investigative reporter Jeff Kosseff is another. Here’s his Charity Begins At Home feature (video), which was nominated for a Pulitzer (and should have received it).
