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 All About Twitter 
 
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What is Twitter?
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Twitter
is asocial networking andmicro-bloggingservice thatenables its users to send andread other users' updates,
tweets
, which are text-basedposts of up to 140 characters inlength.
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Updates are displayed on theuser's profile page and deliveredto other users who have signedup to receive them.
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Senders can restrict delivery tothose in their circle of friends(delivery to everyone being thedefault).
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Users can send and receiveupdates via the Twitter website,SMS,RSS(receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon  andFeedalizr.
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 The service is free to use overthe web, but using SMS mayincur hone services rovider
My Twitter home page, showing the latest tweets from me & everyone II have customized the color scheme & background.
 
Why Is Twitter The New Facebook?
“Microblogging” easy to do;popular with busy individualsand attention-span challengedhipsters
Able to post to Twitter frommultiple sources:
 Twitter.com, both full-sizewebsite and a “light”, mobileversion
SMS text – able to send a 140character message from a cellphone
Able to follow through multiplechannels
Can opt to receive updatesthrough SMS text message when“following” people
Can add a Twitter stream to anRSS feed
Unlike blogging, can call otherusers’ attention to a post withan “@” reply, creating adialogue instead of a one-waybroadcast
If a user wants to reply to a“tweet”, they preface their
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Vocabulary:
Tweet (noun)
– a Twitter post
Twittering (verb)
– to post on Twitter
Twitterati
– famous individuals(including online-only fame) on Twitter.
Re-tweeting
– to re-post a tweet,but include the @username whoposted it originally in your tweet
Fail whale –
the image displayedwhen Twitter’s servers go down
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