Twitter is a micro blogging service operated by Twitter Corporation which is located in San Francisco, America. It was developed by Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter Corporation. Twitter shares information in real time by exchanging short message named tweet. Since having taken up service in 2007, it has been developed into a platform of new data transportation from a daily communication tool. It has already been diffused to all over the world. Meanwhile it has been adopted by various corporations for the promotion of various business activities.
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Twitter communicates with numbers of users simultaneously within limit of 140 characters starting with a simple greetings like 「What’s up？」. The message uploaded on the Twitter gets to the 「followers」 of the user’s in real time. Not only chatting among friends, but also news, weather forecasts and other information can be uploaded on the user’s homepage and shared among followers in real time.

WILLCOM is the first operator of mobile business in Japan that adopted Twitter as a formula content. Besides, 『HONEY BEE 3』, the PHS handsets launched by KYOCERA in the end of 2009 were equipped with Twitter shortcut, thus the users can access Twitter homepage simply with one touch. The new handsets are expected to have an enormous market prospect.