What is Twitter?

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• What?
• Why?
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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?

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• It's one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.

  New York Times

• Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app.

  TIME Magazine

• Incredibly useful

  Wired

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