"It's about having a record of what both the first-person participants in history and its spectators were saying," Raymond says. "Wouldn't it be amazing to have the broad and immediate reaction of people to Pearl Harbor?"
No question. But for most people, Twitter's charm is the way it cuts to the social media chase.
"I used Facebook a lot, but Twitter is my new social outlet," says Sandra Springer, 42, a UPS driver from Mason, Ohio. She hopped on eight months ago and hasn't looked back.
"It may only be 140 characters, but oddly it feels so much more interactive than other social media," she says. "Maybe because it's real time, but it just feels more personal to me."
via usatoday.com