It seems the world is now full of different ways that we can communicate with each other. While there are still people who see the benefit of writing a letter to tell relatives about the car raffle that they won or of calling their daughter while she's away at school, the Internet has opened up a world of other possibilities. Now you can let people from all over the world into your life with a blog, Facebook page, or emails. The newest trend for those who want to know a little bit more about friends and celebrities is Twitter.

Twitter is known as a microblogging site and allows people to post messages of no more than 140 characters to their followers. You can find out about celebrity nose jobs Toronto based by following a media firm like TMZ or could find out what a friend from university is now up to ten years after graduation. A message is called a "Tweet" and this is a form of communicating that is now being embraced by people as well as companies.

Twitter came to be in 2006 and is the brainchild of Jack Dorsey. In five short years, it is now being used by about 200 million people and there are about 190 million tweets posted a day. This is described as the perfect combination between blogging and texting. You can send out a message in seconds while you're at a team building retreat with people from work or while you're at the gym. And you can keep up to date with all of the important people in your life extremely quickly.

As with other forms of social media, Twitter has become an important tool for many businesses. Instead of doing an entire advertising campaign to showcase a discount on Punta Mita condo rentals, for example, a travel company can now send out the word to all of their followers for free. Using Twitter to run contests and discussions about a new product is now very popular, as it usually increases the number of fans one Twitter page will get.

When studying the type of things that people are posting it was discovered that most still use it to send relatively meaningless comments about their day. They might comment on what they ate for lunch or refer to a friend that said something funny. But, it can't be denied that this is a tool that is finding its way in all sorts of different businesses. If you're planning to start your own business than you might want to look into the potential of having a Twitter account. Or, you could just use it as a way to unwind at the end of the day.