What Is the Twitter Program?
The Tweeternet website reports Twitter to be a free Internet-based social networking and micro-logging service. Twitter is available throughout the world for people with access to the Internet via a number of services.
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History
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The social networking service Twitter was established in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. The Crunch Base website explains that the Twitter organization is based in San Francisco, California.
Real Time
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According to the Twitter website, the service allows users to answer what's happening right now. Short real-time text messages are sent via Twitter of no longer than 140 characters in length that are referred to by users as Tweets.
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Access
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The Twitter service can be accessed by a variety of applications with differing power. The Twitter website explains that broadband services can be used, including video game consoles and personal computers. Cell phones are also used to post information to Twitter via SMS text messaging.
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