If you're the type that checks your MySpace, Facebook or Friendster pages several times throughout the day, it may be safer if you stay away from this new social networking site.

Twitter.com, owned and created by Obvious Corp, is one of the few new social network sites that combines instant messaging, social networking and wireless communication. Twitter members update the site on a constant basis, making announcements from the mundane, "I had tomato soup for lunch," to "I'm going out for happy hour, come join me!"

It's a new way for networking addicts to get their information fix, and with the frequency of hits by users who have to check the site minute by minute, exposure for marketers is rapidly growing.

The buzz around Twitter is increasing as Technorati -- a site that tracks popular topics in blogging -- listed Twitter as the 7th top searched topic.

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