Twitter information

The buzz is all around. Everyone is speaking about Twitter! Well, what is Twitter? Read further and you will know all about Twitter. The most simple and clear-cut answer to 'what is Twitter?' is, it is a social networking and a micro walking a blog site. Those of you who are busy in their lives and have no time for long emails and Instant Messages, Twitter is a ideal choice.

Twitter allows its users to send and get tweets. Tweets means messages in Twitter world. The tweets are limited to 140 characters. These tweets appear on the profile of user page and are delivered to its followers. Followers are those who subscribe to a user. Twitter is also called SMS of the net. Whether it is some breaking news or a message or an update from a mate, you can get all this information via Twitter.

Twitter is the most recently launched social networking site. Launched in 2006, Twitter has gained popularity among social networking people and bloggers worldwide. Introduced by a private company, the most outstanding thing about Twitter is, it wasn't started as a venture aiming at social networking. Yet, today it ranks third among the other social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

there's lots of ways to send messages (tweets) to others. you can send messages directly through Twitter website, as an SMS on phone or through third party like Firefox add-on called Twitterfox, Twirl or Snitter.

Now that you know what is Twitter take a look at the list of some notable Twitter users. you are sure to be amazed. Twitter was used in 2007 by the fire department of LA in the work of los angeles wildfires. a few of the NASA projects are updated using Twitter. Oh yes, not to forget the know-how savvy President of USA. President Barack Obama used Twitter in the work of his election campaign. Not him but even his campaign volunteers used Twitter for publicity in the work of the campaign. The most notable use was by Israel government. they held press conferences through Twitter. they held their Q&A round via Twitter about the then ongoing war against Hamas, Gaza.

After knowing what Twitter is all about, let's look at a few of the pitfalls of Twitter. In the short time it has been on the net, it has had its fair share of technical glitches. Account handling came up as one major issue as Twitter servers could not handle the inflow of loads of new accounts. Importantly and critically, security factor was compromised several times on the use of Twitter. The fact that loads of users discontinued using Twitter a month after signing up goes to show the kind of problems this program faced. With the press giving loads of bad press about Twitter, one thing was sure - This new social networking application surely had some way to be going before it topples Myspace or Facebook. That said, the net site surely gained popularity, albeit in a bad manner.

Now that you know "What is Twitter?", why wait, and get the ball rolling with a Twitter account.