WEBVTT 00:00:00.053 --> 00:00:05.007 So, whata'ya doing? It's one of the first questions we often ask friends and family. 00:00:05.007 --> 00:00:10.026 Even if the answer is just mowing the lawn, or cooking dinner, it's interesting to us. 00:00:10.026 --> 00:00:13.051 It makes us feel connected, and a part of each others lives. 00:00:13.051 --> 00:00:18.034 Unfortunately, most of our day-to-days lives are hidden from people that care. 00:00:18.034 --> 00:00:22.052 Of course, we have e-mail, and blogs, and phones to keep us connected 00:00:22.052 --> 00:00:28.009 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. 00:00:28.009 --> 00:00:32.092 but, what about people that want to know about the little things that happen in your life. 00:00:32.092 --> 00:00:37.083 Real life happens between blog posts and emails. And now, there's a way to share. 00:00:37.083 --> 00:00:41.037 This is, Twitter in Plain English. 00:00:41.037 --> 00:00:46.034 Thanks to Twitter, it's possible to share short, bite-sized updates about your life 00:00:46.034 --> 00:00:49.051 and follow the updates of people that matter to you, via the web. 00:00:49.051 --> 00:00:51.035 Here's how it works... 00:00:51.035 --> 00:00:57.062 Meet Carla, shes addicted to her mobile phone, reads blogs everyday and has contacts all over the world. 00:00:57.062 --> 00:01:03.049 She heard about Twitter and was skeptical. After some of her friends couldn't stop talking about it, she gave it a try. 00:01:03.049 --> 00:01:08.070 She signed up for free, and saw that Twitter pages look a little like blogs, with very short posts 00:01:08.070 --> 00:01:15.060 Each page is personal and has updates from friends. She got started by looking up her friends on Twitter dot com. 00:01:15.060 --> 00:01:20.081 After finding a few, she clicked follow, to start seeing their updates on her twitter page. 00:01:20.081 --> 00:01:25.038 Within hours, she started to see a different side of people she chose to follow. 00:01:25.038 --> 00:01:31.005 She didn't know that Stephen in Seattle was a baseball fan. Or that Julia in London was reading a new investment book. 00:01:31.005 --> 00:01:35.072 The little messages from Twitter painted a picture of her Friends, Family and Co-Workers 00:01:35.072 --> 00:01:43.010 that she'd never seen before. It was real world. Soon, she became a fan of Twitter and posted updates every day. 00:01:43.010 --> 00:01:47.094 Her friends followed her updates, and learned that she recently discovered a passion for Van Halen. 00:01:47.094 --> 00:01:53.096 They could see Carla's life between blog posts and e-mails. For Carla, Twitter worked because it was simple 00:01:53.096 --> 00:01:59.049 the updates were always short, under one hundred and forty characters. Plus, she could post updates 00:01:59.049 --> 00:02:06.097 and follow her friends using the Twitter website, software on her browser, a mobile phone, or instant messages 00:02:06.097 --> 00:02:10.056 By asking members to answer the question, "What are you doing?" 00:02:10.056 --> 00:02:16.050 Carla found Twitter brought her closer, to people that matter to her, 140 characters at a time. 00:02:16.050 --> 00:02:20.035 Find out what your friends are doing, at Twitter dot com. 00:02:20.035 --> 00:02:24.051 Im Lee LeFever, and this has been Twitter in Plain English, on the Common Craft show. 00:02:25.035 --> 00:02:26.051 Bye!