Twitter works for a Queen

Twitter? Have received a few invitations to join Twitter. But still have resisted. Maybe, I refuse to be over connected. With Facebook, Yahoo! Mail and Messenger and Friendster, do I still another way to get connected with family and friends?

Photo shows Jordan's Queen Rania, wife of King Abdullah II, greets Pope Benedict XVI (R) upon his arrival at the Queen Alia International airport in Amman.

More recently, a queen used Twitter. Yup, according to WiredPR News, Queen Rania of Jordan sent out tweets to her followers about Pope Benedict XVI's first ever visit to an Arab country last Friday.

Here is a sample of her tweets:

"Just listened to Pope's speech. Our region so needs a message of Peace."

"Special day here in Amman; not everyday pope drop s by 4 a visit."

Photo of Pope Benedict XVI from by Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images.

The Queen’s office had announced earlier that the queen decided to register on the Internet social network Twitter on the site http://twitter.com/QueenRania The office said that this done to mark Pope Benedict VI’s first-ever visit to the Middle East.

Who started Twitter? Jack Dorsey. He is an American software architect who started Twitter back in 2006.

Today, according a Nielsen.com blog (Michelle McGiboney: "Twitter's Tweet Smell of Success" March 2009), Twitter is ranked as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009, followed by Zimbio and Facebook. But it’s retention rate is very high. An article “Many Twitters are quick quitters: study" published April 29, 2009 says many users drop the service after a month. And Twitter has experienced a few outages. Well, Twitter ain’t perfect technology yet.

What are tweets? Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. This can be displayed on the user's profile page and sent to other users who have subscribed to them.

Will I go on Twitter? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe, before Pope Benedict visit the Philippines?