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FireNews.net is experimenting with Twitter.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as TwitterFon, Twitterrific, Feedalizr or Facebook. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.

For more information, and to sign up for a free account, visit www.twitter.com

FireNews.net's twitter address is twitter.com/firenews.

Learn more about Twitter at wikipedia.

And in case you are wondering if Twitter is a fad, it was recently valued at $500,000,000.00.