Twitting…

If you guys have been ignoring Twitter, you probably haven’t realized its power. You have probably tried it at one point, and decided that you really didn’t care if a friend is having lunch with Bill Gates, or taking a piss. Really, who’d want to be THAT updated?

But as with all things high-tech, people have always used technology for mundane things. Even great technologies have their asinine yet practical application. While most people use Facebook to play Fashion Wars or solicit sympathy for a dead toenail, a lot of businesses have found suppliers and customers on the site. Some people use it to connect with long-lost friends and keep up with them.

Twitter, I found out, has great potentials. I was recently out with a couple of friends and went to see a movie with them. Tina, a movie buff, mentioned something about a movie shot in India that won a lot of BAFTAs and nominated for a number of Oscars. For the life of her, Tina couldn’t remember the movie’s title.

I haven’t heard of the movie, while the other two were as clueless as I was. It bothered Tina to no end, so she kept on tapping and doing all those insanely Tina-things to let us know she’s bothered. Mon finally surrendered and whipped out his laptop. I thought he was going to Google for movie, India, BAFTA and Oscar, but he went to Twitter instead. In the box, he twitted: “What’s that new movie that was shot in India and is nominated for the Oscars?”

In a matter of seconds, and right before our eyes, Mon’s followers came up with the answer: Slumdog Millionaire. With it came the names of the producers, the director, the cast, the movie’s official Web site, synopsis, even the Oscar categories it was nominated in. As in SECONDS.

Until then, I didn’t really think much about Twitter. I thought it was just another Internet fad that featured a cross between social networking and RSS. I did not realize its potential power both as a source of information and as a means of propagating it.

The possibilities are endless. Looking for a recipe? Twit it. Want a recommendation for a hot date? Twit it. Wanting to know how much to budget for that new restaurant that just opened last week? Twit it. Want to launch your business or advertise your service? Twit… You get the idea.

Read another interesting Twitter article here: Getting the most out of Twitter

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