What is Twitter?
April 29th, 2008Having lived in the United States for many years, I have seen how hate campaign, in any manner, in any way, in any highway, could provoke – well, what else, hatred and violence. Which is why, I take them very seriously. Be it on the internet and out of the internet. Unfortunately, people will do just about anything to push their own personal agendas just so they would look good. This is how I discovered Twitter. Not a real good way to discover something. Obviously, I had a very bad impression about twitting and most twitters themselves. I did went ahead and twitted just like everyone else hoping to find some good things about it..
Personally, I have been tweeting for a few months – on and off – and I haven’t been very consistent with it. But, what is Twitter? According to the Twitter FAQ:
“Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing.”
Wikipedia says:
“Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or any one of the multitude of Twitter applications now available”.
Twitter allows you to send and receive updates (also called tweets) via your browser, email, instant messaging clients and SMS (using your cell phone). Stuck in traffic? In a meeting? No matter what you do! You can tweet!
Essentially, Twitter asks the question, “What are you doing?” and allows you to send a short update but are limited to 140 characters, to whoever are you followers.
If you’re new on Twitter, it could be a very desolate place. Why? You’re basically alone. So, it’s like - “Ok? What am I doing here?!”
Basically, what you do is find the Tweets that you want to follow. Next, start building followers.
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