S-R is going to Twitter the Duncan case.

Seriously. Reporter Meghann M. Cuniff is heading to Boise to expand our coverage of the Joseph Duncan case to a totally different platform – followers of the Twitter service, which includes mobile users.

Users…called twits…send little updates…called tweets… to people who subscribe to those users’ updates and posts.

Which means Cuniff sends out micro-messages to users who subscribe to notifications through email, instant messenger, or with text messages on their mobile phone. Tweets are up to 140 characters long.

Here’s their Wikipedia page and here’s an FAQ page . And here’s a video that explains Twitter in plain English .

We’ll provide more information soon, about how to follow the Duncan case using this service.