What Is the Difference Between a Chat Room & Twitter?
The Internet offers multiple ways to communicate with audio, video and text. Twitter and chat rooms are two popular ways to communicate using text. These services have distinct features and operate in different ways.
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Twitter Basics
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Twitter is a service you can use from a mobile phone or Web browser to broadcast "updates" in the form of text messages up to 140 characters long. Your message shows up on your personal page on the Twitter website, where other users subscribing or "following" your page can read it or have your updates automatically forwarded to them.
Chat Room Basics
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Chat rooms allow multiple people located at different computers to communicate text over the Internet in real time. Everyone participating in the chat room sees everyone else's messages as they appear.
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Platform Differences
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A person can interact with Twitter entirely from a mobile phone, but participating in a chat room usually requires sitting at a laptop or desktop computer.
Costs
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Some online services charge for access to chat rooms. Meanwhile, the Twitter service doesn't charge users to send messages from their mobile phones or the Twitter website, or charge users to read other people's messages on the Twitter website or have those messages forwarded.
Communication Limits
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Since Twitter limits each message to 140 characters, trying to conduct a conversation through Twitter can be awkward. Twitter is used primarily for notifications instead. Chat rooms often have moderators and codes of conduct. You can be kicked out of a chat room, but you cannot be blocked from using Twitter under ordinary circumstances.
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