Among the many Internet-based services, there is no doubt that "Twitter" is one of the hottest. Twitter is the name of a social networking service (SNS). You can register for a free account to have your own page, on which you post very short messages, or "tweet." If you "follow" someone else's account, then that person's tweets will be shown on your page. You can also communicate with others by replying to their tweets.
Although Twitter is an SNS, it doesn't seem to be just a closed communication among friends, but it's got a rather free and open atmosphere. You can only post up to 140 characters at a time, so people usually just write small notes that pop into their mind without being so serious. And you need only a few minutes to scan other people's posts. So, you might say Twitter offers a good break from work or study.
Twitter was first launched by the American company Obvious in July 2006. The Japanese version of Twitter was released in 2008, but it was not until after Kazuyo Katsuma, a very famous and influential economic analyst, began to use Twitter in July 2009 that the number of Japanese users increased drastically. Katsuma soon invited her friend, the singer Kohmi Hirose, to Twitter, and many people took notice of their posts and thought Twitter was interesting.
Since then, Twitter has continued to gain in popularity. Now some actors, comedians, musicians, cartoonists, and even politicians are posting their tweets. Being able to communicate directly with those celebrities is of course another exciting aspect of Twitter. Also, major companies are now beginning to tweet, and news agencies are making the most of Twitter to inform people of updates on their news websites. It seems that there will be more and more variety coming to the way people use Twitter.
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