Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool

For many people, the swiftly spreading talk of microblogging service Twitter is enough to give the service a go.

Many stick with it on a regular basis because of its addictive nature to so quickly and painlessly update friends and strangers alike with all our random thoughts. But for those unfamiliar with the free service, what’s all the hoopla really about and why might your cell phone give a hoot?

Spawned from the San Francisco offices of Obvious.com in March 2006, Twitter isn’t just another service affording easy, free and quick blogging. Sure, it dispenses all that goodness, but it takes blogging to an entirely novel and interesting level with an integral marriage to cell phones.

Whether you blog quick-hit updates about “what you’re doing now” on Twitter.com, use the handy TwitterFox gadget that’s embedded directly into the ever-popular Firefox browser or receive Twitter updates from friends via RSS feeds, where Twitter spills into the land of the especially unique is in ability to push itself to your mobile phone.