Twitter (!)... Can someone tell me what it is about and what people are looking for there?

[just "JR"]

I am developing a complex site that needs to access various social networks.
For this, I have to register with a great majority of these and find out how they work.
Not being a social network addict, I can't understand what people are looking for in these, but I am learning!
I am now analysing Twitter, and I really can't make head or tail of it!
I go to my page, and find a people "I follow", just to see multiple, irrelevant entries that have no meaning (except an obvious advertising trend).
So...
If you have a twitter account "well developed", I would like to follow you, to find out WHY I should "follow you"!
On the other hand, I would like to know what is your experience when you go on Twitter, and how does your "page" looks like!
If you are good enough with it, please, grab a screen image of what you are looking at and send it to me: I'll set-up an upload on http://www.jrcw3.com this afternoon.
Your comments on WHY and HOW you are using twitter would also be an invaluable feedback!
(I have seen so many questions here about twitter that I am REALLY puzzled!)
"You can meet celebrities and write to them, and they might reply"... Interesting.
Does that mean that the reply will appear on "your" page?

If you don't mind, give me your "details" (or whatever I need), so I can "follow you"... :-)

Eli: I won't have the patience to "experiment"... :-) That site is pure "cr*p" !

[Sara F]

I have been on twitter for two years, and it's really not a very good site. It's used basically just to write status updates such as "Gone to the store" "going to a party" etc etc. and you can meet celebrities there and write something to them like @Justin Oh my god I love you! And they can write back with @You hey, thanks i appreciate it. Or something like that...It's really not that great, people cannot comment on things, it doesn't have a very good layout, etc etc. I use facebook much more often, you can write status updates, share photos, comment on other people's things, have a chat and a message board, make groups, play games, get in touch with people easily, etc. Much better than twitter.

[Eli]

I have asked the same question a while ago

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...506AAX1mcg

and these links might help as well

http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialnetw...witter.htm

http://tweeternet.com/


what i do on twitter? nothing really I don't care about it, I created an account because people say it's "cool" and every 3 months i paste some cool quotes

here's my account to see how it works

http://twitter.com/elieobeid7

[Pat]

Basically it's for posting small updates. Larger updates would generally be destined to blogs and other things like that.

You can send public messages to people by putting their name after the @ symbol in the message (i.e. "Hello @myfriend!")

You can also join a trend by using a hashtag. For example "Last night was so much fun! #FunOnSaturdays" would cause the message to be added to the #FunOnSaturdays trend, with other messages bearing the tag.

Twitter uses a very simple API for accessing it from other websites and applications. You just need to send data to a designated URL and it will return the information you need. You can find the documentation here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs