There are some great new web trends and tools, I'm not sure that they are all useful but they are certainly fun.
One of these is Twitter the leading mirco blogging site that lets you submit bursts of content 140 characters at a time.
Your posts can be submitted directly on Twitter, by SMS or Google talk as well as through a number of third party apps, such as Digsby (more on that later)
Why? you may ask as I did at first and the answer might be why not.
When you first sign up Twitter helps you find other people you know on Twitter, for me that was just 4 out of an address book of 900 - so adoption is hardly mainstream (yet)
But a quick search and I found some of my regular services and blogs all had twitter accounts, such as Engadget and Mashable which is a great way to track blog posts, even your the 2008 Election candidates are there. (Barack Obama and John McCain
If you haven't tried it yet you should and of course you're welcome to follow me - watford68
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