There’s no doubt about it: Twitter has created quite a stir and currently it's one of the fastest growing social platforms with a huge increase in the number of visitors per day.

But what exactly is Twitter?

Well, simply put it, Twitter is a social networking website that allows you to follow the people you’re interested in and find out what they’re doing. When you follow people, your homepage will display updates about what they’re up to, reading, creating...you name it.

Twitter is starting to be used by marketers worldwide as a way to easily send updates to their prospects & customers, as eventually users spend more time checking updates than they do reading their e-mails.

The cool thing about Twitter is that all posts must be 140 characters or less. This is an attempt to come close to normal human conversation - less useless details but straight to the point.

As a social media Web 2.0 micro blogging platform, Twitter offers the business enterprise an array of interesting potential usage. Whether or not the future of corporate micro blogging will be based on Twitter or another company that replaces Twitter as the prevailing platform (remember WordPerfect?), remains to be seen. Other micro blogging companies currently available include Jaiku and FriendFeed.

So, how do you Twitter?