I struggled for a while on the concept of Twitter. It’s a company I’ve known about for a long time but I’ve always asked myself why it would ever be useful. I figured it would just be a waste of time.

Then I realized people are already doing this sort of update all the time on places, for example Facebook. I just logged into my account and within the past 8 hours I have had 21 updates from friends. That’s 6% of my friends! Pretty good, considering the 8 hour timeframe and the fact that most of these people aren’t bloggers or hip with that kind of stuff. If you expand my timeframe, I have 71 updates within the past week. That’s more than half my friends. Impressive, powerful, and not to be underestimated.

It took some “using” to convince me of Twitter’s value but I’m beginning to get it, understand it, and even become a fan of it. My twitter updates are posted directly onto my website as well as Facebook. If you’re a fan of updating your status on Facebook, or have simply wanted a way to shout to the world something interesting but don’t want to take the time to write a blog post about it, Twitter might be for you.

Here’s a great video expressing the value of Twitter and how you can use it: