Is ur profile on Twitter public? r messages u send 2 some1 public (r those the "twitters"?)? how does it work?

[cowboy]

or the "twitters" are like status updates on Facebook?
do you have a profile like on Facebook where you can write about you? photos?

HOW DOES Twitter work? and differences between Facebook and Twitter?
or there are private meages like on Facebook?

[Sam]

there are direct messages which are private. my profile is public. they are called tweets. it isnt really a social networking site, although it is becoming that. its more about micro blogging. twitter is simple, it works by you typing a status update and clicking ok. and you can follow others, such as news outlets. anyway my profile is

http://www.twitter.com/sam_ni

and you'll see what i mean. you can tweet anythng!