About half of the visitors charged laptops or used onboard computers, often to get online to update friends and family.
His parents set up the Twitter account so they could update friends and family on Oscar's condition each time he was in hospital.
Literally, with the touch of a fingertip or the click of a mouse, we can be connected to someone from another country, stream live footage to family members, or update friends with pictures and statuses.
It now seems almost impossible to imagine life without witty status updates, friend requests, relationship statuses or photo tags.
There is also a new feature called "neighborhood," which automatically updates friends to the current neighborhood you're in.
"Basically, for 99.9percentt of people on Twitter, it is about updating friends and colleagues about how the cat rolled over," he said.
First, Jack Dorsey floated the notion of updating friends on one's whereabouts, while Noah Glass championed it and gave the application its name, then Biz Stone was asked to help with building the program by a still-reluctant Evan Williams.
As she traveled the city, making side trips to Amsterdam and Munich, she updated friends and new followers online with photographs of sunsets, train stations and minaret-filled skylines — anything that caught her eye.
A few days later, after updating friends and family on Ashya's progress, he posted: "I didn't want to write anymore because I don't wish to cry, but please continue to pray for Ashya to recover".
Then, the updated friends list consists of only good reputed friend nodes and ensures good delivery rate of messages.
