Twitter Stay in Touch with Web & SMS
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Twitter enables you to keep in touch with groups of friends or family by entering messaging via Twitter.com which is sent out via SMS to your contact groups . These mini updates of up to 140 characters are sent out for free by the Twitter website.
As well as SMS messages, posting on the twitter system, known as micro-blogging, supports other channels like instant messanger and blogs, but the most useful part of the system seems to be the ability to quickly reach many mobile phones with a free SMS. This is typed only once, and quickly entered online rather than by the predictive text on your phone.
The uses are readily apparent, you could just be keeping in touch with friends, or could be keeping business colleagues informed of what's happening, particularly if you are managing a group of geographically dispersed staff, for example in sales. If you're on holiday you may want to send a message to all of your family rather than writing postcards!
You can send as many group messages from the Twitter website as you like, and you are allowed to receive up to 250 messages from Twitter per week, which is a very generous quota and one that makes this a viable solution for work purposes.
If you send group messages from your mobile phone, normal charges would apply depending on your tariff. Via the web with Twitter it is free. A nice way to quickly keep people in touch with what's going on.
The website puts it very nicely: "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?". Whether it's just letting Mum know where you are, or your partner know how your day is going this is a novel service that's catching on fast as the mobile generation of the social networking boom.
One final point to mention is that you can set all important quiet times on your twitter account, so that you are not disturbed by everyone bombarding you with texts.
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