I don’t know about you but I celebrate birthdays for a week.  And by my way of thinking we’ve got several days to continue to enjoy a Tweeting birthday party!

Happy Birthday Twitter

Twitter began on March 21^st 2006.  Wow how it has grown. I wasn’t particularly an early adopter on March 30^th 2007 when I sent out this tweet: “Listening to podcasts, joining twitter, checking it out”.  As of today I’ve tweeted 17,655 times!  That static blows my mind, considering I really just check in and out of twitter via various 3^rd party applications during the day.

When I began to tweet my circle of friends had absolutely no idea what it meant.  If I tried to get peeps interested they pretty much blew me off.  Now it seems everyone knows about this micro blogging platform. From celebrities to news organizations. Business’s who don’t utilize the benefits of twitter are loosing out!

The estimated value worth 10 Billion and growing this little 5 year old has blown all other social networks out of the water in its speed of growth. From Twitter’s own blog:  “Twitter users now send more than 140 million Tweets a day which adds up to a billion Tweets every 8 days—by comparison, it took 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to reach the first billion Tweets. While it took about 18 months to sign up the first 500,000 accounts, we now see close to 500,000 accounts created every day.”

Many facebook friends continue to feel intimated by twitter and have either signed up and left because they weren’t yet “getting” it!  For me fb is fun for keeping in touch with friends family pictures and reuniting with old school buddies. While twitter isexpanding my world from my sofa! With twitter I get real time news worldwide. I get immediate feedback regarding tech questions. And even more importantly to me are the millions of Christian family members who will pray right away for those who are hurting or in need.

I haven’t traveled the world yet I have friends on many continents. When big news events happen I’ve got access to 1^st hand reports, pictures and streaming video because of twitter. I’ve even stopped subscribing to our local paper.

One more important aspect of twitter for me has been my connection with the millions of people living with disabilities like myself. We are able to support one another and become aware of medical advances like never before.

My world would be so limited without twitter!