What the heck is twitter?

[Angus]

i only heard of twitter a while ago, so what the heck is it

[beers]

Micro-blog type of site. You just comment on whatever you're doing at that moment in time and people can comment on it.

[Gee]

Just another Internet communication / chat tool.....CNN seems to enjoy it, lol....

http://www.twitter.com free download , free access...

[The I.T. Tech Guy]

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, 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 open access. 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 sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet", in that the site provides the functionality—via its application programming interface (API)—for other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages, often obscuring the Twitter service itself.

Using SMS, users can communicate with Twitter through five gateway numbers: short codes for the United States, Canada, India, New Zealand, and an Isle of Man-based number for international use. There is also a short code in the United Kingdom which is only accessible to those in the Vodafone network.

Estimates of the number of daily users vary, because 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. A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network, which puts the number of unique monthly visitors at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visits at 55 million, however only 40% of users are retained. 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%.

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[bethann_iam]

If you have Facebook, you know the status where it says a little short sentence of what you are doing? It's basically a site where it is ONLY the status updates. In fact, you can connect them and have them publish TO your Facebook update.

Not everybody "gets" Twitter. They don't really like reading short updates on what their friends are doing throughout the day, or reading news headlines as it sort of started out as, and they feel like writing stuff like "Just got back from the John's house. I swear, his couch smells like old people" is just a lot of TMI but others find it totally addicting.

I rather like it.