I was watching Jay Leno the other night and Ellen DeGeneres was the guest on it ans she kept talking about Twitter.com. I was interested in seeing what Twittering was since my dad had mentioned the website a week prior to watching this show. So I decided to sign up for a Twitter account. After all the good things I had heard about this website, I just didn't get it. I didn't get any of it, how it worked, what made it different from Facebook or MySpace, and especially why it was becoming such a big deal. I have yet to really figure out how Twittering works so I decided to look it up on Wikipedia - probably the most credited source there is - and see what I could find. There is a lot of information on the website but here is the basic sum up of what Twitter is.
"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 applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and feedalizr. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees."So if anyone Twitters and knows what they're doing let me know. And if I ever figure it out and I think it's worth knowing something about, I will let YOU know.
2 comments:
Hey I have a twitter too! But I also do not know how to use it or what the big deal is.. it is actually really confusing and I am not a huge fan.. but I will have to find you on there and add you as a friend...or follower or whatever they call it!
Of course you would listen to Ellen! Isn't she your role model or something?
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