To be honest, I do not get that part either.. Shiaさん。 I suppose it means that @japancast would need to either be following you on Twitter.com i.e. recieve your twitter messages automatically. Or you could copy / paste your twitter messages and send them to Paul / Hitomi.. somehow? I don't get it really well either as you can all see...
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Permalink Reply by Shia on October 16, 2008 at 11:11am
I dont quite understand how it works. Am I suppose to create an account at the website, or was the url simply to provide the meaning of Twitters? Am I suppose to send my "one simple question" to my Japancast email address?
Twitter is possibly the most popular social networking site on the internet. It's so popular it routinely goes down because of the massive number of people using it. I figured most people have heard of it and know what it's about by now. Can someone else explain it? Unless you use it, it's hard to explain.