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Twitter is a communications system that functions as a cross between a huge, open IM chat room, and blogging by snippet, or micro-blogging. On it, you can narrow down the flood of information by choosing to participate or monitor conversations through the people whose conversations streams you pay attention to, or follow. You can also choose to follow them by categories, or search.

The specifics of those are less important here so I won’t go into detail about that.

In addition to following other conversations, your conversation stream can also be followed or observed. Some people use the conversation stream just to communicate, others to network, brand and promote themselves. Companies like Comcast have teams that do this together.The Limits of Social Networking Surrogacy