How does Twitter work?

[breezybrabbit]

Twitter is honestly really easy (and when you get used to it, it's better than facebook!)
To get people to follow you, you can't message them you have to 'mention' them, by tweeting and (if you go on facebook you'll know what this means) tagging them... by putting a @ followed by there user name. Then put whatever like "follow me back" etc, so then it would look like this:
@usernamehere follow me back!
Then when they follow you back you'd be able to send them a private direct message.