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__** Twitter makes inroads **__
Created three years ago as a way for employees of a San Francisco podcasting company to communicate with one another, twitter.com isn't just for the young. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, the average Twitter user is 31. And the number of those twittering grows every day. The same Pew study said that in May 2008, 6% of adult Internet users said they used Twitter or a similar microblogging service. Seven months later, the number had grown to 11%.

__** How to tweet **__
Go to twitter.com and click "Get started -- Join." Fill out the form, choosing a user name and password. Now that you have an account, tell your friends what your user name is so they can follow you, or send them the link to your page. You can send a Twitter message, or tweet, from your computer or smart phone. In addition to friends, you also can follow some famous Twitterers: • Celebs like Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart and Jimmy Fallon. • Evan Williams: Founder of the company that built Twitter. • President Barack Obama. • The Detroit Free Press for breaking news in Detroit and around the state. • CNN for a newsfeed of national stories. • For a video Twitter tutorial, go to www.youtube.com and search for "How to Twitter."

__** When NOT to tweet **__
**In the bathroom:** Yuck.


 * At work:** Just ask Charlie Villanueva of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, who got reprimanded for his halftime tweet.


 * At a funeral:** Clearly inappropriate and in poor taste.


 * Behind the wheel:** All eyes on the road.

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**//What is Twitter?//** Twitter is a online application that is part blog, part social networking site, part cell phone im/tools. Its designed for users to answer one question "What are you doing?" Users have 140 characters for posting "or tweet"

Twitter Launched out in 2006 but did not start getting popular until ther 2007. Alot of people are using includint presidential candidates, Well known- high tech gurus, and celbrities.
 * //Who does it?//**

This can be the hardest part about twitter. Begin by have an outstanding profile image, link to your blog and a very short but eye catching description. Start following people and eventually they will check your profile and probably follow you. If you want to post about what you had for tea then wait until you have a large following. The main aim at the start is to build a good reputation. Once your followers grow the more will come naturally.
 * //How do you build// //a network?//**

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= = =__Law enforcement, physicians, college campuses tweet real information in real time__=

BY LAURA BAUER • MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS • April 21, 2009 Maybe you know about Ashton Kutcher's obsession with Twitter. Last week the actor became the first tweeter to reach 1 million followers, and on Friday he got Oprah to join in. You might have even heard about Corey Menscher, who made a tweeting habit of documenting every time his wife felt their baby kick before the boy was born in January. But did you know this? The FBI twitters. So does the Johnson County, Kan., sheriff's office. And the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas. And surgeons in Wisconsin who took followers through a knee surgery, tweet by tweet last week. **It seems this land of Twitter** -- where life is documented on the Internet in 140 characters or fewer -- isn't just about [|celebrities] or the silly anymore. It's about real information, in real time. Sometimes that can be tweeters telling people about a shooting in their town, or about who was arrested overnight and is now in the county jail. Or letting residents know about severe weather. "Twitter is a scanner. It's a scanner of life, scanner of the country," said Jen Reeves, an expert in new media and a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. And many organizations are jumping in. **The sheriff's office in** Cass County posted its first tweet March 26. "Just started tweeting today! Hopefully found a way to get out our info to more of our citizens in a unique way." The next day: "Have more complaints of scams in Cass. People need to remember to NEVER give out personal info to unsolicited e-mail, mail or phone calls." The FBI set up its Twitter page last fall. Today, at least 150 police agencies twitter, and the FBI has more than 2,600 followers. During President Barack Obama's inauguration, the bureau told followers which entrances to downtown Washington were closed. On a daily basis, tweets can be about new criminal charges or wanted fugitives, even cold cases. "The 'Wanted' posters of the past, while there's a purpose for those, this is the new version of that," said Special Agent Jason Pack, a spokesman in the bureau's national press office. Twitter would be a good way to alert students to an emergency on a college campus, such as a shooting or major incident, said Jeffrey Beeson, a University of Missouri spokesman.
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"It's the fastest way to notify people that we have," Beeson said. "Hopefully we don't have to use it for that." When Milwaukee police wanted to inform the public about a shooting recently, they turned to a tweet of fewer than 115 characters. "Latest homicide in the city is NOT a random act. Male, 33, shot in 1500 block N. 39. More details as we have them." **Some tweets can be** intriguing, like the ones Robert Hendrick of Tennessee posted last fall when he had outpatient varicose vein surgery. He was awake for the surgery and kept his followers -- including his wife -- updated on what was going on. "Got some great paper shorts. Then they french cut them up the side. Gr8!," he tweeted early on. Hendrick co-founded Change:Healthcare, a business that helps clients [|save money] on health care. Hendrick said that twittering his surgery was a way to show people the process and educate them. "2 veins down. 2 to go. 1 lower left leg. 1 lower right leg. Top left leg done," he tweeted from what he described to his followers as a cold operating room. Twittering, Hendrick said, "gave me a sense of connection to people during the surgery." **Doctors are getting** involved with tweets during surgeries. Aurora [|Health] Care in Wisconsin plans to use Twitter regularly during surgeries. During a live twittercast, the hospital saw its followers rise to 2,240, up from 930 the previous week. During the surgery, medical staff posted 250 tweets and received 180 replies with questions or comments. The idea is education. Reeves, the MU professor, said of twittering, "It may not be the end-all, be-all, but the way it functions, the way people communicate, I think it's going to stay around."