Virtually overnight, Twitter has become the trendiest of social networking tools, seated comfortably at the popular kids lunch table along with Facebook and MySpace. It’s now the third most used social network on the Web and is experiencing growth six-times faster than the next fastest growing site, Zimbio, and has over 6 million monthly users who visit the site more than 55 million times per month. Users range from Shaquille O’Neal to tech geeks, who update anywhere from once or twice a week, to over a hundred times per day.
So for better or worse, the rise of Twitter only further confirms that social networking tools will continue their collective siege into our personal and professional lives far into the forseeable future. And they’ll usher in the Web 3.0 generation along with it.