Twitter – Anatomy of a Microblogging Tool

Twitter. It's used by over 45 million people (estimated June 2009) around the world to send messages 24/7. Not all of those people have remained active users, due to the supposed fad-like nature of social networking tools like this, but still, many millions use it daily, if note weekly. I don't think it's a fad. Twitter is solid and is here to stay.

If you're not on Twitter, it is worth a few minutes of your time to find out about it to see if it might be helpful to you - personally or professionally - or both.

If you're new to Twitter, this short review of Twitter will familiarize you with the basics.

Twitter, which is based in San Francisco, California, was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006.

Twitter is a social networking service that allows users to send, read, and receive messages from other users. The messages that you send or receive are restricted to 140 characters and thus Twitter is also referred to as a micro-blogging service. If you're verbose in your expression, using this tool will quickly cure you of that.

You can "subscribe" or follow the messages of other people by following them on Twitter. You do that by going to their profile and clicking the "Follow" button. You become what is referred to as a "follower" from their standpoint. You can follow others and they can follow you.

When you sign in directly to your own Twitter account, you'll see three measures - your follows (following), your followers, and the number of tweets you've made.

When you want to send someone a message a public message, you simple start the message with the @ sign, followed immediately by their Twitter name. So, if you want to send a message to John Smith who happened to own the Twitter name jsmith, you would address your message like this: @jsmith hope to see you at the board meeting at 2 p.m. today. If you wanted to send a private message, that only the recipient can view, address it as "d jsmith ." (no quotation marks are to be used). The d stand for direct message. There are many tools you can use to facilitate this and other ways of doing this, but again, this is just an overview of some twitter basics.

A Twitter stream is the ever-updated list of messages that flow through your account - those of your own as well as those of your followers. A Twitter client is a tool that allows you to interface with Twitter from a dashboard-like screen which allows you to easily follow others, send tweets and direct messages, as well as to create groups of people to follow. Hootsuite and Tweetdeck are examples of Twitter clients.

In summary, Twitter is a social networking service that facilitates communication between users in 140 characters or less. It's a popular social networking tool used by millions around the world.

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