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Why the whole world is in a Twitter - Telegraph
Britney Spears loves Japan, and thinks the tiny cars are “so cute”. Stephen Fry has been in Los Angeles, bumping into Ioan Gruffudd, “who’s a complete poppet”. And Mike Wilson has veered into profanity: “Holy ——ing ——,” he says. “I was just in a plane crash.”
Welcome to Twitter, the latest Silicon Valley start-up that’s going from cult oddity to mainstream social network. Launched in August 2006, and now numbering between four and five million users, all it asks is that you answer the following question, in no more than 140 characters: “What are you doing?”