The sheer speed in which social networking sites are growing is absolutely incredible, for the past three years we have seen an explosion in online networking sites, making it reminiscent of the 1990s internet bubble era. It is obvious that the more and more people come online, the more and more the internet is becoming a huge connection hub.

By all means that is absolutely how the internet should be and was intended to be, the internet was created to share masses of information and now it's easier than ever before.

We have seen huge growth in sites such as Facebook and MySpace, but the latest online trend is twitter. Twitter is basically a micro blogging site whereas you can post up to 140 characters so that whoever is following you can see your updates, obviously the more followers you have the more your message will be heard.

Although twitter has steadily been growing since its launch it is only recently that it has really had enormous amounts of full media exposure. There are a huge amount of celebrities taking advantage of the service and it has had a lot of airtime as of late.

So that begs one question, will Twitter be entering the showbiz industry? The simple answer is yes, what Twitter is doing is bringing famous icons a lot closer to ordinary people. A regular user can signup and send a famous figure a tweet and in no time the star will read this and personally end up replying to you.

Twitter also has a great API whereas you can create fully functioning applications. We all watch and vote on talent shows which are broadcast on TV, so what is there to say that in a few years' time people will not have the opportunity to vote on talent shows via twitter. The site takes advantage of SMS messages so it would work out incredibly cheaper to text into twitter than it would texting in to a premium line.

The micro blogging site has a great future ahead of itself and although the site consists of only micro blogging, I believe that the API access was the best thing for them to do because with the sheer volume of useful third party applications the site can grow indefinitely. Putting the time into your tweets will make you build up a great follow ship that can be a great tool indeed.