Twitter is sweeping the Internet. It has grown over 1,000 percent in participation in 2008 and shows no signs of slowing down. Here are some applications and websites that will help you get more out of Twitter. more »
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Twitter is sweeping the Internet. It has grown over 1,000 percent in participation in 2008 and shows no signs of slowing down. Here are some applications and websites that will help you get more out of Twitter. more »
Twitter is a popular social networking site. Users broadcast messages limited to 140 characters. These messages are called "Tweets." Users can also follow each other. Users send and receive messages through Twitter's website, various third-party browser plug-ins or SMS cell phone messages. more »
Twitter is a messaging tool that restricts messages (called tweets) to 140 characters. It shares some qualities with instant messaging and with email, but it is unique in the sense that everyone can read what a user tweets. Here is how to use Twitter for your business. more »
The social media platform Twitter exploded in popularity thanks to high-profile news coverage in the first half of 2009. Twitter is called a micro-blogging tool because of its use for brief personal updates. more »
Get with the times, folks. Twitter is a newer social networking/blogging tool that lets you send status notices through your cell phone, instant messenger or via the Web to notify friends and followers of the little things you're up to during the day. The thing is, you can only use 140 characters per "Tweet."
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the authors profile page and delivered to the authors subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
The 140-character limit on message length was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging, and has brought to the web the kind of shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages. The 140 character limit has also spurred the usage of URL shortening services such as tinyurl, bit.ly and tr.im, and content hosting services, such as Twitpic and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitters application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.
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Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexas web traffic analysis. Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social networkKazeniac> based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits.Kazeniac /> In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
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