What is Twitter?
What is Twitter?
Many of you might be already knowing something about it.
There might be some people who actually have an account on Twitter.com
but normally don't visit it(generally with an excuse of "No time'!).
Yet, in my friendlist, there are few who use Twitter regularly.
I thought this excellent tool should reach to more & more of my friends
& so, started this blog...
So, What exactly this Twitter is?
It's a free social networking website like Orkut or Facebook.
Like other sites, here too you can find & meet people, talk with them, etc etc.
So, what is the difference?
There is a whole lot of difference.
But for a start, some basic differences are...
Difference No. 1: No Scraps/Messages/Mails. Its Tweets.
The main purpose of this site is updating status.
You go to Twitter.com & on the top you see a text box.
You write something in the box & say update. That's all.
This message, post or status update is called a 'Tweet'.
One of the important features of Twitter is its openness.
You can see tweets of others, even if you don't have account on it.
E.g. if you goto http://twitter.com/adivasai
Difference No. 2: 140 Characters!
You can write anything in the above mentioned box...
A tweet is normally an answer to a simple question:
"Wassup?" or "What are you doing?" or "What's Happening?"
But it's not compulsory... you can write anything...
story, joke, sms, poem, link, news, advice, anything.
Only one condition... 140 CHARACTERS!
ONLY 140?????
Yesss! You have to write it all in just 140 characters.
NOT 140 words, but 140 CHARACTERS!
Space, Enter, Commas & other signs. Everything is counted in Characters.
This is superb for a less talking person.
But what if I am a talkative person & want to write more than that?
Simple! Write 2 or more tweets, there is no limit! :-)
Difference No. 3: No Friendship. Its Following.
You visit someone's profile page on Twitter,
& you think, "Yes, my thoughts are similar to him",
or you vist SRK's profile & exclaim "Oh My Goodness! This is Shah Rukh Khan!!!"
or you visit BBC's profile & say "This one will give me latest & breaking news"
or you visit Obama's profile & say, "I really want to listen what he says".
Then, you don't send friendship request & keep waiting for acceptance.
You just click a button "Follow" & that's all! You start following him/her/it.
What does 'following someone' mean?
It means you don't have to visit the profile to know what someone says.
You get all the tweets by that person right in you twitter page.
You can follow anyone. Anyone can follow you.
There's one more hidden advantage.
Suppose, you want to wish "Happy Diwali" to all of your friends.
Now, you don't have to go to profile of each friend & post a scrap/meesgae: "Happy Diwali"
You just tweet 'Happy Diwali' & this tweet automatically reaches to everyone who follows you.
So simple! Right?
Difference No. 4: ReTweet!
You read some tweet & find interesting.
Then you think, "Oh, I would like to share this with my friends(i.e. Followers)"
In that case, you just click on ReTweet Button under that particular tweet
& that's all! It's shared(i.e. Re-Tweeted) with your followers!
Difference No. 5: Free, Open & Live!
Twitter is a "open to all" website.
Whether or not you have an account on twitter
you can search & read tweets of others.
You can search for "Windows XP"
& read the tweets which are recently posted worldwide having words "Windows XP".
How fast is Twitter? 'Recently' means 'tweets before 30 Seconds'.
One more open feature is Trending Topics.
If you goto http://twitter.com, even before signing in,
you can see 3 rows of Trending Topics:
showing Popular Topics Right Now, Popular Topics Today
& Popular Topics This Week.
Its very interesting to see what people are talking about
right now, today or for last week.
(Haiti Earthquake & iPad are among the hot topics for last week.)
There are literally 100s of points that will attract you to twitter.
But these are just basics.
Others next time...
C ya.
regards,
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