“What are you doing?”

That question is the rocket fuel for Twitter — a hot social-network service that lets you tell public what you are up to at any given moment of the day — via cell phone, instant messenger, or the Web. Never heard of it, you say?

“What are you doing?” is the question Twitter asks “Twitterers” to reply in a simple text knowledge as they connect with friends, co-workers or the wider world. Twitterers “tweet” about everything from what they had for lunch to how much they enjoyed their latest Netflix DVD. whether that sounds foolish and incredibly narrow at first, don’t concern, you’re not alone.

“When society take in about Twitter, their instant reaction is that it’s the simplest and stupidest notion in the world,” says co-founder Biz Stone.

“They do not want to know that their brother is eating a hot dog right now,” he says. “But next they discover that their friends are on

it. And so are the L.A. Fire office, NASA and JetBlue. thereupon they get it.”

Boy, do they.

Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. So many society now use Twitter to update friends that the system often crashes.

That could be about to change. Twitter executives are working feverishly to solve the problem through a new investment ($15 million, according to several tech blogs) from Spark Capital and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and putting off expansion plans (i.e., making money) until the network issues are resolved.

“Twitter took off really quickly, and honestly, we were surprised and had to play a lot of catch-up,” says Stone. “Now we’re focusing 100% on reliability.”

Twitter no longer exists just for friends to tell friends that they’re on their way to the gym or out to eat. It’s become a…

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