If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you know that Twitter is one of the biggest sensations in the Web 2.0 world. For those who don’t know, Twitter (a service available at Twitter.com) is a simple microblogging service that allows users to make posts (called tweets) of up to 140 characters that answer the question “What are you doing now?” Users can follow people they find interesting and have followers of their own. In this way, information can be published to a small following or disseminated far and wide.
A quick glance at any single Twitter account reveals that users typically produce tweets on a wide variety of subject matter, from the everyday (for example, “I’m having a sandwich”) to the more sublime. Often, there are embedded links to images, media files, and blog postings. These URLs are frequently obfuscated by services like TinyURL, mostly to keep the total character length of the post at or under 140 characters.
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