As I’ve been getting more and more active on Twitter in recent weeks (I’m Bernzilla on there), I’ve noticed that a couple web browsers (and their corresponding organizations) have been becoming more active on Twitter as well.  More than a few times, I’ve seen updates from folks like cheeaun referring to the Twitter accounts mozillafirefox and opera, which look like they were created on May 14, 2008 and April 11, 2007, respectively.  Therefore, I think it’s fair to say that Opera’s got quite a head start in the browser wars on Twitter.  That doesn’t necessarily mean, though, that Opera is the most active in that war.

Today, I noticed that a Firefox upgrade on Ubuntu led to the browser identifying itself as Firefox 3.0, with no information regarding whether it was a release candidate (which it is) or other unofficial release.  I Twitter’d about it, and within minutes I had gotten two replies from a Twitter account named firefox_answers, explaining why I was seeing what I was seeing (kind of).  Keep in mind that this isn’t an automated service.  The answers I received and others I’ve seen posted are very thorough and targetted at Firefox questions and/or feedback being tossed into the Twittersphere moment by moment.

Time will tell who ends up winning or at least dominating the browser wars on Twitter, a relatively young and growing platform, but one thing I can say is that it’s fairly obvious that there are at least two obvious guests who haven’t yet arrived at the party (at least, officially).

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