Twitter is just awesome. Well…we know that but why? How many times have you gotten an email from friends after you tried to see what contacts to follow from different email accounts – saying, “What is Twitter?” Twitter is a micro-blogging platform allowing you to follow people and read what they are thinking about or is it…? To sum it up, Twitter can be defined and used in almost an infinite amount of ways.

Since the creation of the Google search engine, information has been provided in front of our monitors in seconds, if not milliseconds, depending on how fast our Internet connection are. With fast answers from the Internet, humans have been trained to get their information in seconds.

Digital media was first introduced with the Television. TV viewers are also accustomed quick information through sounds bytes.  How many times have you heard the saying “The President Changes…”?  Those three words are enough to keep you glued to the television screen until the full story unfolds.  Alongside Television sounds bytes, Twitter, short phrases are once again capturing our attention, but with a quicker answer with the inclusion of a tiny url capability.

With twitter, we are seeing similar trends with its viewers and the birth of “text bytes.” “Text bytes,” a small catchy phrase, written by Twitter users, is obtaining a lot of acclaim. The users of Twitter are now turning onto search.twitter.com to read the latest news and trends through posts. Twitter is also providing networks where friends, companies, and executives can update and interact with you. Instead of turning on the TV to watch a basketball game, you can tune onto Twitter and see what’s going on at every moment. Best of all, if you like what that person or entity offers – follow them for next time.

In closing, why should everyone jump on the Twitter bandwagon? Twitter is growing at a rapid pace and becoming the ultimate information hub. It caters to our senses. Human behavior, since digital media was introduced has been trained and accustomed to quick and easy stratification, and Twitter is all of that and more, as it users grow to match everyone’s liking.