An Area Of Technology that interests me

                An Area of Technology that interests me is Twitter, i have been on twitter for a few years and have noticed how popular twitter has become as a means of communication.  But what exactly is twitter? "Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets"."       
                Twitter is quite easy to use, once you sign up you can find other users name by searching them and to follow them all one has to do is click a button. Twitter also has a very popular and important feature called "trending topics" which shows what is being talked and tweeted about all over the world, you can look at worldwide trending topics or by country, this has helped to make twitter an important journalistic tool in more recent years.  
                Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006 after a ¹"Daylong brainstorming session"which resulted in the launching of twitter in July.  Twitter, however didn't become popular until 2007 when it was used in a conference (SXSWi) where the members of the conference could keep ¹"tabs" on each other and the messages were broadcast live on two plasma screens at the conference.  Since then twitter has been rapidly increasing in popularity from 65 million tweets a day in June 2010 to 340 million with 140 million users on the site in March 2012. 
                 Twitter seems like a simple enough concept that in theory shouldn't be as popular as it is, so why is it so popular? One of the reasons that it is popular is that it gives people a chance to keep up to date with people all over the world.  It also means that people can follow the people that they look up to i.e scientists, politicians musicians etc., following them means that they can always know what the people they are following are doing, the gigs they will be doing, the tv shows they will be on, and the articles they are interested in. Twitter is updated constantly and acts as a medium between its users and their followers, the information can be posted and all of their followers will instantly be updated without any hassle on the tweeters part. Twitter has also become a brilliant and vital journalistic tool, with many news channels and newspapers having and regularly updating their pages. Twitter is sometimes the first place where the news is broadcast as it is so easy and the information is quickly broadcast all over the world. The journalists can also use twitter to gain information because of the sheer number of users.  There are many different reasons why twitter is and will continue to be one of the internets most popular social media network, and no doubt will be improved by the creators as the demand for improvement increases. 
                I am a big fan of twitter and i use it on a weekly basis, both tweeting and reading tweets. I think it is a brilliant tool the modern and tech savvy world. News can be broadcast all over the world in the space of a minute and all of the celebrity news can be broadcast, keeping the fans updated on a constant basis, this benefits both the tweeter and the follower without a lot of effort on either users parts.
The sheer fact that there is 140 million users must mean something? 
And the 340 million tweets a day must count for something? 
References 
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
2. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=twitter-what-is-it-good-for-2009-02-13