"What are you doing?" This is the question that Twitter asks you upon logging in or upon opening the site. Just what are you doing? If this is how the site charms its members, what's so great about Twitter?
First, you need to know what the site is. Basically, it is a social network and micro-blogging service. If you are familiar with FaceBook, MySpace, or Multiply, then you'll have no problems getting into Twitter.
As a social network, it aims to gather groups of people who have the same interests. As a micro-blogging service, it provides short updates on the users blogs, or even just his activities.
Twitter is all about the "tweets", or updates. Updates are the answers to the ultimate Twitter question: "What are you doing?" What's great about Twitter is that is only requires you 140 characters to answer the site's central question. To many, the prescribed length of characters is seen as a limitation. On the other hand, it challenges you to say things using fewer words. After all, less is always more!
So again, what's so great about Twitter? What makes it different from other social networking sites?
The Terms
The terms that Twitter uses are unique and interesting enough to differentiate the site from other social networks, like "tweet", for example. Below is a list of Twitter terms that you need to be familiar with:
1.Follower - Those who have chosen to receive your tweets. Simply put, these are your friends who want to be updated about your life.
Richard Adams - About the Author:
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