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How to Hate Twitter (Yes, You!)
I hear it all the time, "Twitter is a waste of time." "I just don't get the big deal about Twitter." "I'm too busy." "I only focus on mortgages." (A little secret snark there for a friend.) Let's back up just a few steps so we all have the same perspective.
Twitter. If you have not heard of it welcome to earth. Twitter is, simply put, a very fast past, one sentence electronic bulletin board. Oddly enough about 25 years ago that was the only way I communicated over the Internet. Actually it was called FIDONET back then and I accessed it with a computer with less power than your digital kitchen timer. So we have come full circle - only now it is much faster, there are millions of users and it is graphical instead of a black screen with little green letters!
Twitter was developed way back in 2006 - the equivalent of a digital millennium - by Jack Dorsey. Jack was joined by Evan Williams (not in a bottle) and Biz Stone who at first named the system twttr (flickr inspired the idea) and later spelled it out to Twitter. It has no specific meaning except that twitter ... more

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