What's the appeal of Twitter?
In the last month or so, a strange new communication tool has burst onto the scene. Twitter is a service in which you post very short messages - via cell phone texting, chat program, or the Web - about what you're doing right now, or rather, what you were doing right before you wrote your message.
For example, if I were to create a Twitter message right now, it might go something like "Telling public radio listeners about a popular new service called Twitter." Messages are limited to 140 characters - just a couple of sentences really.
You can get messages from your Twitter friends on your phone or computer.
The very concept is quite silly to many people. After all, is the minutiae of daily life worth communicating? I really wanted to know, so I called up a couple of Twitter users: Aaron Landry of Minneapolis and Rex Sorgatz of Seattle.
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