There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. “Say Hello to Kindle 2,” it said, in tall letters on the main page. If I looked up a particular writer on Amazon—Mary Higgins Clark, say—and then reached the page for her knuckle-gnawer of a novel “Moonlight Becomes You,” the top line on the page said, “ ‘Moonlight Becomes You’ and over 270,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle—Amazon’s new wireless reading device.

Learn more.” Below the picture of Clark’s physical paperback ($7.99) was another teaser: “Start reading ‘Moonlight Becomes You’ on your Kindle in under a minute. Don’t have a Kindle? Get yours here.” If I went to the Kindle page for the digital download of “Moonlight Becomes You” ($6.39), it wouldn’t offer me a link back to the print version. I was being steered  [Read more]

I don't know what the inventers of Twitter were thinking when they created it or what they thought people would do with it but I am pretty sure it has developed in ways they never imagined.

However as the conversation below illustrates not everyone gets it! But as this article will show it has passed the point where you can afford to ignore it or just brush it off if you are serious about marketing your business or web site. The conversation below is a real one from which I copied an excerpt.

You can see all of it at
http://hubpages.com/hub/Twitter--twitter--tweet-tweet.

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