Life on board ESS

We now have a new communication channel on the web to layer our news, blogs and the more heavily produced documents from ESS Scandinavia with micro-blogging using the "SMS of Internet" - Twitter. Please follow our Twitter page here:

http://twitter.com/ESS_Scandinavia

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).

Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has grown extensive notability and popularity worldwide.

In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4-5 million users.

A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranks Twitter as the third most used social network (Facebook being the largest, followed by MySpace), which puts the number of unique monthly visitors at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visits at 55 million. In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a growth of 1382%, Zimbio had a growth of 240%, followed by Facebook with a growth of 228%.