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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.05,0:00:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, whata'ya doing? It's one of the first questions we often ask friends and family.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.01,0:00:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if the answer is just mowing the lawn, or cooking dinner, it's interesting to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.03,0:00:13.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes us feel connected, and a part of each others lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.05,0:00:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, most of our day-to-days lives are hidden from people that care.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.03,0:00:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, we have e-mail, and blogs, and phones to keep us connected
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.05,0:00:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you wouldn't send an email to a friend to tell them you're having coffee. Your friend doesn't need to know that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.01,0:00:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, what about people that want to know about the little things that happen in your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.09,0:00:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Real life happens between blog posts and emails. And now, there's a way to share.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.08,0:00:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is, Twitter in Plain English.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.04,0:00:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks to Twitter, it's possible to share short, bite-sized updates about your life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.03,0:00:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and follow the updates of people that matter to you, via the web.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.05,0:00:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's how it works...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.04,0:00:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meet Carla, shes addicted to her mobile phone, reads blogs everyday and has contacts all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.06,0:01:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She heard about Twitter and was skeptical. After some of her friends couldn't stop talking about it, she gave it a try.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.05,0:01:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She signed up for free, and saw that Twitter pages look a little like blogs, with very short posts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.07,0:01:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each page is personal and has updates from friends. She got started by looking up her friends on Twitter dot com.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.06,0:01:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After finding a few, she clicked follow, to start seeing their updates on her twitter page.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.08,0:01:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within hours, she started to see a different side of people she chose to follow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.04,0:01:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She didn't know that Stephen in Seattle was a baseball fan. Or that Julia in London was reading a new investment book.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.00,0:01:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The little messages from Twitter painted a picture of her Friends, Family and Co-Workers
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.07,0:01:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she'd never seen before. It was real world. Soon, she became a fan of Twitter and posted updates every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.01,0:01:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her friends followed her updates, and learned that she recently discovered a passion for Van Halen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.09,0:01:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They could see Carla's life between blog posts and e-mails. For Carla, Twitter worked because it was simple
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.10,0:01:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the updates were always short, under one hundred and forty characters. Plus, she could post updates
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.05,0:02:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and follow her friends using the Twitter website, software on her browser, a mobile phone, or instant messages
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.10,0:02:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By asking members to answer the question, "What are you doing?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.06,0:02:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carla found Twitter brought her closer, to people that matter to her, 140 characters at a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.05,0:02:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find out what your friends are doing, at Twitter dot com.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.04,0:02:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Im Lee LeFever, and this has been Twitter in Plain English, on the Common Craft show.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.04,0:02:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bye!