Twitter, Tweet, TweetScan... What is this thing?

For those of you with Twitter accounts, you might consider following @NewsFromNepal. You can access the site by clicking on http://twitter.com/NewsFromNepal Basically News From Nepal is information collected in nearly real time from www.bbcnepali.com, www.nepalnews.com, www.ekantipur.com and other sites and content publishers. For those of you who have absolutely no idea what I am talking about, Twitter (www.Twitter.com) is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send and read other users' updates. These updates are known as Tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length and updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Hey, this is how I found out that Nepal got the patent rights on pashminas. Pretty handy information for even the most irrelevant topics.

You may also try your hand at TweetScan (www.tweetscan.com) and use the search term “Nepal” or “Nepal Adoption” to see what is being tweeted about every day (or minute, as the case may be). So take a minute and sign up. Hey, if you are really bored, you can follow me @llovek.

And if you are really brave, you can set up a TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com ). It’s basically your personal browser and a one-stop-shop for staying in touch with what’s happening and connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and other social media applications.

If I have made your head spin, forgive me. Its time to turn off Twitter, Facebook, Yammer, Yahoo Groups and LinkedIn and hit the sack.