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Online tweets tell you what everyone is up to, all the time
AFP, June, 2007
Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Twitter
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Internet and mobile phone message boards are atwitter with Twitter, the raging online trend to share one's every move with friends Haiku-style every moment of the day.
Twitter users get a maximum of 140 characters a shot to answer the question "What are you doing?
A relentless flood of "tweets" as seemingly mundane as "I'm boiling water" or "Walking the dog" relentlessly flood members' e-mails, instant message boards and a public timeline on the twitter.com website.
"The first reaction is to hate it because its seen as the most useless thing in the world and no one would ever want to know about boiling water," Twitter founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey told AFP.
"But these small details in life are what connect us most. Everyone has these specific moments and you normally don't bring them up in conversation because it ...
