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Since last summer my friends and I have been redefining the use of status messages on Gmail chat.

Instead of the regular, “busy”, “available” or “away” messages – we would use the input box to post personal updates. Through our status messages we would let each other know if we were having a bad day, pass on cryptic messages, and engage in discussions without even firing up the usual chat window. Eventually we would post updates several times a day because we found that it somehow bridged the thousands of miles between us.

Little did we know however that around that same time there was already a Web 2.0 service that was doing an even better job at implementing this concept. The service is called Twitter, a social networking site which asks the simple question…”What are you doing?”

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