Twitter? What is that thing called Twitter?
I made my twitter account in 2007, but i only started tweeting actively for a month or so. Why? Cause at that time i didn’t consider Twitter worth my time. But i was wrong and that’s why i’m going to write a couple of posts about Twitter and what i found during this last month of using it.
First,what is Twitter? The answer is simple: a microblogging platform where you can write 140 characters long posts. Not longer. So, whenever you have something to say and it’s not worth blogging about, you can tweet it. Something that bothers you, something interesting you just found out about, something weird… whatever comes through your mind and is worth sharing can be tweeted.
But Twitter is more than this. It’s a social network too. You can follow other people and see their tweets and others can follow you too. You can reply to other tweets and thus engage in online conversations with people you know or you don’t. Thus, you get to know lots of people interested in the same things you are, people that might become friends, business partners, etc. But more about this in a future post.
My boss says this Twitter thing is like a web2.0 online chat. I can’t disagree completely, but there are differences. While chats are mostly for fun, Twitter can become a powerfull self promotion tool.
In the end, i must say i’m sorry i didn’t give Twitter a chance back in 2007. But i plan on recovering the lost time from now on. If you want to follow me, here’s my link (carefull, I tweet in my native language, Romanian). Next post about Twitter’s features and 3rd party sollution you must use in order to enhance your twitting experience.
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Twitter is an incredibly useful tool! I really love it!
Twitter is better than facebook or myspace because the interface is clean, too many junk and useless function on facebook or myspace that I don’t need it.
I really love it!
There is so much buzz about twitter at the moment. I find it really useful for keeping in contact and like Handy said, the interface is really good. I still use facebook way more often.
Really trying to get a grib on the twitter experience.
i registered to twitter some 2-3 months ago..I wasn’t interested at first because of the short space and i feel like i’m just talking to myself. But lately i began appreciating twitter’s clean space. Facebook has too much clutter, and i only go online if i want to play their online games..
you can speak with other people and your friends.