Scooped! director James McIvor is interviewed in today's Sun newspaper, giving his view on the social networking phenomenon twitter.James has launched the world's first online newspaper, the all tweet journal.
Here are 20 things to know about twitter
1. Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to micro-blog for free in real-time
2. Posts - called tweets - can be no more than 140 characters long.
3. You can 'follow' other twitterers' tweets and they can follow yours.
4. Your username is @nameofyourchoice and you can have your own picture
5. You can use twitter from your PC or your mobile phone
6. You can post about anything you like .. a link to your own or favourite website or blog, about what you're doing at work, how you're favourite sports team are doing (you can tweet direct from the game) where you're going that night, when you're playing your next gig - or, simply, what you had for dinner. It is also useful for asking your followers a question and, often, getting a prompt response.
7. Posts - both yours and your followers' - are displayed on your profile page like a micro-blog, allowing you to scan over each page and spread news very quickly.
8. You can follow a number of celebrities on twitter including @britneyspears @andymurray @wossy (Jonathan Ross) and @coldplay
9. The twitterer with the most followers is @barackobama who at the last count had more than 250,000
10. @stephenfry is at No3 with almost 200,000 followers
11. @stephenfry tweeted from 'The Green Room' moments before he appeared on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross last month.
12. twitter scooped the world with the Hudson River jet crash - a picture of the plane was posted on twitter within minutes of it crashing and was later used on BBC News.
13. twitterers can get their daily diet of news from twitter with @bbc @skynews and @cnn all regularly updating
14. An estimated 35million people use twitter worldwide
15. twitter - founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams - does not allow advertising on the site and has not made a single penny but last year turned down a £350million bid from Facebook.
16. There are now hundreds of twitter applications which allow users to share photos, videos or files or just find people more easily.
17. There is now a dedicated online twitter newspaper called thealltweetjournal.com
18. There is a website dedicated to validating celebrities on twitter called valebrity.com
19. On February 12 more than 175 cities around the world - including Glasgow and Edinburgh - will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.
20. twitter is not all good though ... @russellbrand has joined.
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