Twitter is an easy-to-use popular social networking and micro-blogging website where people share news, opinions, thoughts, ideas and feedback with others. Like other social networking sites, the free service allows users to connect and stay in touch with others.
Although there are many social networking sites available today, Twitter is different from the others. Registered users update personal blogs by posting and replying to short messages or posts called Tweets. Tweets are short messages, limited to 140 characters in length, which are sent instantly to other users.
People on the contact list send and receive, or “follow”, one another in a variety of ways; the Twitter website, by email, mobile device, RSS feeds or by using third-party applications. Because the messages are limited in length, they fit nicely on a recipient’s mobile device.
Twitter Benefits:
While many use the service for personal reasons, some are jumping on the Twitter bandwagon for self-promotion or business purposes. Twitter can be an effective marketing or fund-raising tool. The service provides another method to collaborate and network with coworkers and existing customers. It is also used to share links, set up meetings, find new clients, follow up with leads and hire new employees. Bloggers frequently use the service to network with other bloggers and drive more traffic to their sites.
But whether it used for personal or business purposes, Twitter provides immediate feedback from other users, which can be invaluable. While many users integrate Twitter into their daily activities, some warn the free service is quite addictive!
Setting up a Twitter Account:
- Users must be at least 13 in order to sign up.
- To begin, users must first register for the service and create a new account.
- Signing up is simple and quick.
- The users full name and email address is required and then select a user-name and password.
- Once registering is complete, users can check existing Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and other web-based email accounts to locate friends and family. In order to search the web-based email accounts, users must enter their email address and password in order to perform this function.
- Account settings include user location, time zone, adding personal blogs or websites, short bio, preferred language and mobile phone number.
- Users can also personalize the look of the Twitter page by using a variety of pre-made themes and background colors or create a unique look.
- A protection feature is also included. When this option is selected, the user will not be shown on the public timeline area.
- Users have the option of follow other users to “un-follow them.”
The Twitter craze is so popular, it has a language all its own - Tweetups, Twittersphere, Tweeps, Twitworking, Twilit and Twittery, just to name a few. An online dictionary, Twittonary, is available to help decipher the Twitter language.
Launched in 2006, Twitter is a small company with a great big following. Nearly 7000 new users sign up for the service every day and the site is so popular, even pets are signing up! Twitter is an acronym, “Typing What I'm Thinking to Everyone Reading.”
Twitter is not only entertaining and fun, it is a simple and easy way to stay in touch with friends and family and network with others.
Read Free Twitter Tools and visit Twitter or Twitter desktop, mobile and web applications for more information.
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