If Twitter was an animal it would be a honey bee.
i.e. shows up everywhere, busily pollinating as it goes.
Twitter is an extraordinary free Social Media service that allows use to share short messages (limited to 140 characters) from your computer or by SMS from your mobile phone. The platform allows you to follow or subscribe to messages (called tweets) from other twitter users.
By searching Twitter for keywords in your areas of interested. It might be Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, and Bio-control you can find other Tweeps (a nickname for twitter users) to follow who are interested in the same things.
Before long your network will grow around the globe putting you in touch with people you might never otherwise meet and giving you access to a very rich stream of knowledge. It is also a great way to stay in touch with people you already know.
There are a burgeoning range of 3rd party Twitter applications sprouting up that make it a real power tool. One nice little mashup http://pipes.yahoo.com/mmmeeja/twitterfollowers can be used to create a world map of twitter follwers i.e. people subscribed to your twitter updates.
While it doesn’t capture all your followers, it’s a pretty groovy thing to see 100 of your followers on a map and visualise the global conversation taking place everytime you send a tweet.
