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...Twitter is an online service you can use to send out short (140 characters or less) notes to the world via the Web, IM and text-messaging. People use it to issue updates about what they're doing, eating, seeing, feeling, etc., to their family, friends and whoever else might be following them. ("Following" is Twitterspeak for signing up to receive somebody's "tweets," which is what the individual updates are, adorably, called. Tweets are a bit like the status updates on Facebook, but without the Facebook.) (See the best social networking applications...
...When Twitter launched in 2006, it was like a relic from the Jurassic period of the dotcom start-ups, when you could get funding for anything. Could a service that seemed to be designed specifically to provide its users with incessant interruptions, empty of almost any meaning or importance, really succeed? (Read "Facebook: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About...
...could. Twitter's community grew about 900% last year, to more than 5 million users. A bunch of venture capitalists just gave Twitter $35 million. (All together now: "In this economy?") The Dalai Lama Twitters. So do Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg and dozens of members of Congress. (See the top 10 celebrity twitter feeds...
Those annoying-ass tinyurl messages have been linked to some rando in San Francisco named Hoan Ton-That. No indication yet of who he is or what he has against your gmail account, but we did find his Twitter account. Excerpts after the jump...
...Currently spamming my friends with Twitter! Hell yeah12:53 AM Feb 18th from...