Social networking is enabled by internet applications providing us with endless opportunities for sharing short updates about our lives, activities, thoughts, ideas and location. Followers on Twitter get to know you and our world becomes a smaller place.

I'm fond of saying every Tweet is a dot and a thousand Tweets paint a picture. When you Follow someone on Twitter it's not necessarily the content that's illuminating, it's the when, where, why and with whom.

Twitter and status updating - Report from the PEW Internet & American Life project.