Twitter Turns Down Facebook

I heard of Twitter during the election, many articles mentioned that Barack Obama checked his Twitter all the time. Twitter is a way to communicate with people in less than 140 characters answering the question: What are you doing? or "microblogging" (hint hint Professor :-)). Facebook and Myspace have included this format within their pages with "Username is..." Twitter does this without all the extra bells and whistles that Facebook and Myspace have. It has a cool "follow me" feature that allows you to be updated on what your friends, family, or coworkers are doing.

Twitter has chosen not to venture with Facebook. Their main reason is they want to figure out a way to make a profit. Unlike Myspace and Facebook, they don't want to sell ads on their pages. They want to sell direct communication between a business and the Twitter community.

An interesting note, "Twitter was being used in newsgathering, as it was during the terror attacks in India last week."