Excellent Video about Twitter and how it works. Very well done and easy to understand for even twentysomethings or my clients …

Don’t miss the other brilliant videos from commoncraft as well.

Yep, I finally joined the in crowd - again. I tried Twitter in the very beginning and didn’t like it so much - because it was an "empty universe". And I am still surprised that such a minimalist tool is such an success. It doesn’t do anything new - it’s a sort of public instant messaging and group chat. So nothing your AIM, Yahoo Messanger, ICQ, Skype and MSN are not doing already - but in a bit different way.

But it once again shows that excellent small tools always find their audience. Especially when they fulfill specific needs: in this case 24/7 exhibitionism, virtual omnipresence and peeping into other peoples lifes. Some people would call another step to the ever close global village - other would call it simply the inability to be alone and "disconnected" in our networked modern life.

Anyway …

Ultraorange on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ultraorange

But you can also see the recent twitter posts above.

CNN: Student ‘Twitters’ his way out of Egyptian jail 

This is a typical high-tech non-story. If this guy simply would have called someone nobody would have cared. But because he used a high-tech gizmo suddenly it’s a story.

I think for causing such a stupid commotion he should be jailed - and all his Twitter buddies and the journalists too!

*Thanks to Edosan for not Twittering this to me*