What is twitter? Is it like Facebook?

[Momuvtwinboyzn1babygirl]

Just wondering. I've seen several posts about it.

[Kat.]

Twitter is just status updates while Facebook is having a status to update and profiles and everything like that. When you "tweet" you just update your status. That's all you can do.

[jannghi2]

Just like the other person said, Twitter is just status updates. You "follow" others.

[Leoniieâ„¢]

Umm you update statuses on it like facebook. Everone who's 'following' you will see these statuses on their hompage.
And when you 'follow' people, their statuses gets displayed on your homepage. Alot of real celebrities have twitters.
You can add pics to these statuses too, and you can message people.

But instead of adding friends, if you follow someone, they aren't automatically following you back. They need to click 'follow' on your page to recieve status updates from you.

[prie]

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained extensive notability and popularity worldwide. It is often described as the "SMS of Internet," in that the site provides the functionality (via its application programming interfaces) for other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages, often obscuring the Twitter service itself.

Four gateway numbers are currently available for SMS — short codes for the United States, Canada, India, and an Isle of Man-based number for international use. There is also a short code for Vodafone users from the United Kingdom. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via e-mail.

Estimates of the number of daily users vary as the company does not release the number of active accounts. In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4-5 million users.[2] A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranks Twitter as the third most used social network (Facebook being the largest, followed by MySpace),[3] which puts the number of unique monthly visitors at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visits at 55 million,[3] however only 40% of users are retained.[4] In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a growth of 1382%, Zimbio had a growth of 240%, followed by Facebook with a growth of 228%.

Jack Dorsey had grown interested in the simple idea of being able to know what his friends were doing. Specifically, Jack wondered if there might be an opportunity to build something compelling around this simple status concept. When he brought the idea up to his colleagues, it was decided that a prototype should be built.

Twitter was funded initially by Obvious, a creative environment in San Francisco, CA. The first prototype was built in two weeks in March 2006 and launched publicly in August of 2006. The service grew popular very quickly and it soon made sense for Twitter to move outside of Obvious. In May 2007, Twitter Incorporated was founded.

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