The simple fact is, more and more people are jumping on the Twitter bandwagon these days, and it’s become one of the main tools for sharing links, status updates, and other small bits of information with friends and colleagues.  This is called micro-blogging, and it’s a lot easier to keep up with than writing traditional blog posts like this one on a regular basis.  However, when we do manage to make a blog post, we want to keep track of who is sharing it, correct?  This used to be done by trackbacks but as more people are sharing links via Twitter than their own websites, it’s created the need for a new service, TweetBacks.  Dan Zarella, a social and viral marketing scientist, has invented this service and a useful new Wordpress plug-in that takes advantage of it, which I’ve enabled here on my blog.  It will be interesting to see if I get any TweetBacks in the coming months.