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Twittering is getting from mainstream media buzz from places like USA Today. When a movement gets attention from such places, it often means it is beginning to move out of the techie-junkie realm into the field of vision of your average internet user.

The social networking site growing so fast that it is wrestling with the problem of going down from too many users trying to access it. A good problem to have.

Twittering is sort of micro-blogging or perhaps Group IM (instant messaging). Like the status updates on Facebook, twittering explains what I’m doing right now in just a few words. Ten, 20, a 100 people may be signed in to get my twitters. This comes in handy at conferences and conventions, where you can tell folks, hey, there’s free bobble head dolls on the convention floor at booth 12 for the next 10 minutes.

Working on the same premise is 12seconds. You create video updates that are 12 seconds in length – a similar limitation to Twitter’s 140 character limit.