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Twitter is an online social networking tool in which users post 140 character updates of what is going on in their lives along with links to things they think are interesting, funny, or useful to their followers (“following” being essentially what “friending” is on other sites). People use twitter in many ways, some as a newsfeed by following prominent people or networks, some as a pseudo-chatroom by limiting their followers and whom they follow to close friends and family, and some as a microblog for updating people about the work they are doing and their personal lives.

un joli résumé de l'état du web cet été 2008 http://ping.fm/2RYJK [from http://twitter.com/kemar/statuses/895530504]

What do they tweet about? How much do they tweet? How social are they? Do they use hashtags? Share URLs? Tweeps.info answers these questions and more. We analyze the content of Twitter users' tweets to find interesting statistics about them. We'll even tell you whether a user seems to be a prominent person or celebrity, or whether they display bot-like behavior.

This guy has some great ideas like an "Austin startup district and a wordpress fest in the park. And he walks to Will Wynn randomly.