What are you doing?  This is the question Twitter is trying to answer.  I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about Twitter.  I’ve integrated Twitter with the API on this site as well as installing plug-ins for things like Facebook.  For those of you that don’t know, Twitter is a social networking site which is primarily based on status messages.  It’s what I like to call “mini-blogging” because it’s short quick posts.  Twitter also makes it relatively easy to update.  You can IM, text message, use the web, or use applications that use the Twitter API to post to your profile.  This is nice because there are times when I don’t blog because it takes time and sometimes I’m just too busy.  With Twitter it takes no time to update.

I used to use Pownce, but I think Twitter is better integrated at this point.  I think both services have their plus and minuses.  I also think both can co-exist together.  Twitter is much more simple since it only has the one task it tries to accomplish.

Twitter is also integrated into our WordPress blog.  Whenever we create a post for the blog, it automatically updates our Twitter account.  This is nice for businesses since other Twitter users can follow the company and always get updates from the company.  Feel free to follow the Twitter profile for Brandon Quintana Consulting.

It’s a fun and pretty addictive service.  It’s easy to use which I think is the most important part.  It might just be a fad for me, but I’m not sure.  Recently I’ve read Twitter was transitioning away from Ruby on Rails due to some scalability issues.  If they can overcome these issues, I’m sure the service will be around for a long time.  If you have any Twitter advice, let us know.