New to twitter. Need help?

[Luqmaan]

twitter is pretty much a more improved version of the status updates feature of facebook and that's it. to communicate with maria for example, if her username is 'maria' you need to enter an update starting with @maria and type 'how are you' this goes to her in her replies tab but visible to everyone, to talk to her directly, you need to use the direct messages feature which is private.

if someone wishes to see your updates in their 'timeline' they follow you, if you follow someone you see their updates in your timeline, the timeline is what you see when you login to your twitter home page. did i miss anything?