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So, whata'ya doing? It's one of the first questions we often ask friends and family.

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Even if the answer is just mowing the lawn, or cooking dinner, it's interesting to us.

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It makes us feel connected, and a part of each others lives.

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Unfortunately, most of our day-to-days lives are hidden from people that care.

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Of course, we have e-mail, and blogs, and phones to keep us connected

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but you wouldn't send an email to a friend to tell them you're having coffee. Your friend doesn't need to know that.

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but, what about people that want to know about the little things that happen in your life.

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Real life happens between blog posts and emails. And now, there's a way to share.

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This is, Twitter in Plain English.

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Thanks to Twitter, it's possible to share short, bite-sized updates about your life

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and follow the updates of people that matter to you, via the web.

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Here's how it works...

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Meet Carla, shes addicted to her mobile phone, reads blogs everyday and has contacts all over the world.

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She heard about Twitter and was skeptical. After some of her friends couldn't stop talking about it, she gave it a try.

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She signed up for free, and saw that Twitter pages look a little like blogs, with very short posts

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Each page is personal and has updates from friends. She got started by looking up her friends on Twitter dot com.

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After finding a few, she clicked follow, to start seeing their updates on her twitter page.

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Within hours, she started to see a different side of people she chose to follow.

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She didn't know that Stephen in Seattle was a baseball fan. Or that Julia in London was reading a new investment book.

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The little messages from Twitter painted a picture of her Friends, Family and Co-Workers

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that she'd never seen before. It was real world. Soon, she became a fan of Twitter and posted updates every day.

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Her friends followed her updates, and learned that she recently discovered a passion for Van Halen.

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They could see Carla's life between blog posts and e-mails. For Carla, Twitter worked because it was simple

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the updates were always short, under one hundred and forty characters. Plus, she could post updates

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and follow her friends using the Twitter website, software on her browser, a mobile phone, or instant messages

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By asking members to answer the question, "What are you doing?"

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Carla found Twitter brought her closer, to people that matter to her, 140 characters at a time.

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Find out what your friends are doing, at Twitter dot com.

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Im Lee LeFever, and this has been Twitter in Plain English, on the Common Craft show.

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Bye!