tweet, tweet, twitter

Nowadays, people are connected virtually on the internet through social networking and micro-blogging websites. One of the most popular social network and micro-blogging website is today is twitter, with their website, twitter.com.

By The Way, What is Twitter?
Simply explained, twitter is a short text messaging service where people write what they are doing at the moment. The text is called tweet, and must be maximum 140 characters. All tweets from a twitter user are displayed on the user profile page. The tweets are also delivered to the subscribers or known as followers. Twitter user or the tweet author may configure the delivery of the tweets to a list of friends or, by default, accessible by everyone (open access).

Twitter Company and Service
Twitter service is completely free, at least for now and so far. It is privately funded when they start twitter in March 2006. Now, twitter has headquarter in San Fransisco and is awarded as the fastest growing site by Nielsen.com.

Twitter for personal Uses and Marketing Uses
Although it is promoted that twitter is good for pomoting business and even to make money online, most of the people on twitter use the service for personal use. They use twitter to know what their friends and family members are doing. And for business, some companies are now start using twitter to promote their product and events.

Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.

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