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Politicians have recently begun Twittering. In fact, there's 47 members of Congress who currently have Twitter accounts. And they're Tweeting, in some cases, from behind closed-door sessions with the President. In this case, this guy's not liking what he's hearing. The President himself is our most popular Twitter user, although his tweets have dropped off as of lately, while Senator McCain's have picked up. As have this guy's.
政客們最近也開始使用Twitter了。實際上，47位國會成員擁有Twitter賬戶。有的時候，他們會在和總統開會發出Twitter。看來，這家伙并不喜歡自己所聽到的事情。總統本人就是最受歡迎的Twitter用戶，盡管近來他不怎么在上面發言了，不過麥凱恩參議員的Twitter使用頻率卻開始增加。這個人也是。
Twitter was originally designed as pretty much a broadcast medium. You send one message and it goes out to everybody, and you receive the messages you're interested in. One of the many ways that users shaped the evolution of Twitter was by inventing a way to reply to a specific person or a specific message. So, this syntax, the "@username" that Shaquille O'Neal's using here to reply to one of his fans was completely invented by users, and we didn't build it into the system until it already became popular and then we made it easier. This is one of the many ways that users have shaped the system.
Twitter最初只不過被設計成一個廣播媒介。你發送的信息能被其他人收到，同時，你也能收到自己感興趣的信息。但用戶們還自己發明了很多Twitter的新用法，例如，回復消息給特定的人，或者回復某條特定的消息。比方說，大鯊魚奧尼爾在這使用“@用戶名”來回復他的某個粉絲，這種用法就完全是用戶們自己發明的。Twitter本來并不支持這種用法，直到大家都開始這么用的時候，我們才增加了這個功能，方便用戶。上面說到的只是用戶幫助改進Twitter的眾多方式之一。
Another is via the API. We built an application programming interface, which basically means that programmers can write software that interacts with Twitter. We currently know about over 2,000 pieces of software that can send Twitter updates, interfaces for Mac, Windows, your iPhone, your BlackBerry ... as well as things like a device that lets an unborn baby Twitter when it kicks or a plant Twitter when it needs water.
還有一種方法是借助于API（應用編程接口）。我們提供了一些API，這樣程序員可以編寫其他程序來和Twitter交互。目前大約有2000種程序可以發送Twitter信息，他們可以運行在Mac，Windows，iPhone或黑莓上...同時，還有的設備可以在胎兒踢腿時發出Twitter信息，或者當植物需要澆水時發出Twitter信息。
