Yet a growing number of users around the world see it as the latest method for busy people to get and share information quickly.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Here the Beatles sing one of their number one hits, "Get Back."

VOA: special.2010.07.30

I think when you stretch it out over three years, because the program does go further, you get closer to that number,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

or the United States," "There well may be a number of people who are considered Taliban because they get paid to fight, because they see no alternative."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

She saw me on TV... running. I'm supposed to go onthe number 9 bus to Richmond Street and get off and go one block left to 1947 Henry Street...

VOA: standard.other

When you buy a drug, you scratch the panel, you send a text message with the number that you see, and you get a response instantly at the counter if the drug is genuine or fake."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"They are so complicated that if you tried to estimate how many ways you can make a snowflake, you get a huge number not just billions or trillions, but bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

"We also looked at the part of the brain called the hippocampus which is very important for forming the sort of memories we make everyday,you know, when you have to remember a pin number or you have to remember how to get somewhere, and the hippocampus, if it's a good size that means you are less likely to develop Alzheimer's,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30