Twitter is more like a on-demand search from friends, relatives or the people who are following you. Let me give you an example on how this works, If you want to know which is the best restaurant for chinese food or which is the best movie for the weekend, google does not tell you that, it just throws tons of sites on your face which gives you reviews about this things.

Now you are asking how does twitter help me with these? What happens in twitter is when you tweet “Which is the best movie for the weekend”, people who are following you get a immediate message on their phones, IM windows or any tool they are using. So most of the people who are following you would be glad to help you out with your weekend movie problem and they would also give you a review which is less than 140 chars(yes 140 chars is the limit for a tweet). This is a new search called Human Powered Search, Instead of asking a website, you just ask humans who are your friends.

Twitter is social bookmarking service too, Now you are asking how does this work. We all tweet links in twitter, mainly because we want to share it with our friends. Now wouldn’t it be nice if we could just bookmark links and read it later. Yes you can do that with twitter, you can tweet your links and also favorite them and you can read it later. If you have too many links, just use tweetscan to search for the links. I personally don’t use twitter to bookmark but if you bookmark a lot, you can try it out.

Twitter can be used to share your joys, sorrows, monday morning blues and also your recent salary hike. That is the reason it is so addictive, people listen your tweets and reply back.

Twitter can be used to follow websites and celebrities too, if you follow websites, you will be notified when their new story is updated or if there is some breaking news, kinda like RSS feed but more faster. Here are some of the news websites you can follow but be warned some of them update a lot and it might feel like they are spamming you. There are some Minor celebrities and Fakers too.

Twitter can be used for marketing, just ask Jason Calacanis of Mahalo fame and how he is getting more than 20,000 people to his site from twitter. It can also be used to look for Jobs.

Last but not least twitter can be used to tell people “what are you doing”?, This is the most fun thing too, you might be in coffee shop with your friends, you might be cooking, gardening, in a meeting or just watching your favorite movie, just tweet about it and let your followers know. This creates a sense of importance to what you do and also helps people know what you are doing.

Twitter has become a part of many people’s lives and it is addictive too. This is surely a technology which will stay for a long time(ya much longer than facebook). Twitter has remained simple and easy to use and the community is great.There are tons of great application’s based on Twitter API too, I will talk about more about them in my next post’s. So if you are using twitter already, add me else Join twitter, don’t miss out on the fun.