Twittering around the world.
A few of you emailed asking us to talk about , the microblogging site that urges you to reveal "What are you doing?" in posts of 140 characters or less. Well we did - we've . Not that twitter is anything new (I've been using it on this ) but it is growing rapidly. And the , and politicians have (although whether the latter is genuine engagement or a PR exercise I leave for you to decide)
Twitters ever extending reach provides a wealth of quotidian detail about life around the world that's fascinating to explore. For global eavesdroppers, lets you find posts from a particular part of the world: Iraq . We spoke to four "global" twitterers for iPM, , Kevin Toomer in Afghanistan, and . You can listen to them talk about how they use twitter below:
As well as looking for the geographical location of Tweets you can also search their content, with sites like or trend the content with sites like . Here for example is a graph of the frequency of certain internet acronyms in tweets. It seems Twitterers 
There are more Twitter and . There's a world of detail to explore
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