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I don't usually say things such as this openly but I realized I am not the only one: I have recently started using Twitter. I don't really have much of a strong reason for not doing so before now but I suppose its just that I did not see how Twitter could benefit me. As it turns out, Twitter is a very good marketing tool something that I did not appreciate before now. I started using Twitter when someone told me of the real time search. Eventually I created accounts for websites I manage so that I can periodically tweet any updates to the sites. Anyone interested to know whenever an update was made could follow that account plus any other announcements.

I have decided to play with the API a bit and see if there are any interesting things I can do. (I have been playing with the Facebook Stream in the past few weeks and will post my experiences shortly.)


Of course there is a lot of junk and spam on Twitter which can be annoying at times. Here is an excerpt of an article at readWriteWeb about Twitter that I found interesting:

Only 5% of Twitter's users account for 75% of all the activity on the service, and almost one third of all the tweets posted by the most active users come from bots that each generate more than 150 tweets per day. According to a new report from Sysomos, the up-and-coming social media monitoring and analytics service, one quarter of all the messages posted on Twitter are currently generated by bots. Some of these are obviously spambots, though a large number of bots are also run by legitimate organizations, including @diggupdates, @imdb, and @dogbook, which posts updates from pets on Facebook to Twitter.