If you haven’t heard of Twitter you should. I know Twitter is popular on the west coast, but haven’t reach mainstream yet.But the reasons why Twitter will be the next big thing is the same reasons why anything becomes popular.Here’s the top 5 reasons.1) It is easy to use. Nothing complicated ever became popular. At least not until it became easy to use.Twitter is very easy to use. All you basically have to do is, tell it “What You Are Doing?”2) Texting is very popular. Are you around young people? Young people barely use the phone anymore.Cell phones are so, 2000….These days the mobile communication of choice is texting. The same reasons why texting is popular so will twitter. Twitter is basically the online version of texting.3) Highly adaptable. Why is RSS so popular? Because of it’s simple context and it’s adaptability.These days RSS is used for everything. From Podcasts, to newsfeeds… to video feeds, to friend feeds.To stream flickr pictures, web blogs and everything in between. It is very adaptable.This is the same reason Twitter will be popular. It could be used for anything. It is very simple, therefore it could be used for multiple purposes.4) People are nosy… Yes, people always what to know what other people are doing.There are people who go on AIM (aol instant messenger) just to read people’s “Away Messages”. That’s right, they go onto a communication platform, not to communicate, but to just read what other people are doing.Twitter is basically AIM away messages… it’s what people want, stripped of the non-essential stuff.5) Twitter will connect people. A weird phenomenon on Twitter is, special groups dedicated to a particular purpose forming on Twitter.People join the group, and follow one another.These days when one works in lonely cubicles or home offices, it’s nice to connect to other people.