What the hell is Twitter?
Twitter is a system of microblogging (between us a concise and flexible blog mostly). Basically consists of writing you're doing, with a limit of 140 characters, or ... the objective is not to explain much, but to the point. The term microblogging (also known as nanoblogging) is only sending texts, but this obviously includes links, which can be shortened by some sites that deal with it as if tinyurl that basically will generate an alias for a very useful web address shortened by limited number of characters which imposes twitter .
Twitter has competitors like Jaiku (acquired by Google). The official site is www.twitter.com and each user has his own page, official additions to the site / username. Another use is that the lanyard be text only allows us to use the phone and messengers, and posting via SMS or from a chat window contact adding to twitter, or so comfortable and agile as your twitterAmigos. RSS, messaging programs and email are other alternatives to keep your friends.
Twitter is free. Project began as a startup in San Francisco in March 2006, and we demonstrated how a simple idea can become very popular in a short time due to mass access to the network, Web 2.0 by a growing number most Internet users.
An idea as simple as it acts as a motivator twitter your idea, that is inside your head, can be a great success in this ever-advancing world. Development is also an emblem of the programming language Ruby On Rails, which pushed for numerous developments in a lot of startups, although even today remain concerns for the scalability of ROR and discussed their migration to PHP or Java in the near future and also has an API that allows developments to interact with it. Today there are many tools to tweet without accessing the twitter website, including adding specific contacts (as twitter@twitter.com for gtalk) from messengers like gtalk can post and receive messages or responses that publish our twitter friends.
It is a social network where from FOLLOWS begins to follow and begin to follow your comments and tweets. Up here we say, that good, but it is useful? And the reality is that the usefulness of twitter I think it demonstrates to walk, you have to use it to know that you are able, because basically, your question, what are you doing? and a text box to detail, not very attractive at first.
It can obviously be criticized, because it is an idea too open, and is in you, it can be adapted so that it is useful. For example, Twitter can be a good scorer of ideas, links, obviously share with your friends ... you should not leave your CBU for example in a tweet. But it is very useful to ask for help, mention that you are doing and that someone would be interested. Because it is a noninvasive method of communication. To give an example, I tweeted to a friend, and he can respond with a tweet directed at me, also are public responses from your profile, so you can use to learn, take your questions, and others will serve him well as the answers you were helpful. Even our friends can see who answered and I said, this is used for personal messages to a particular user, the method is referring to tweet with @ username user.
It also allows to follow live events, comments, reviews ... obvious that everything in that short amount of characters, which makes everything more agile and dynamic. Something like a sms from PC, or even from a mobile phone as we have above.
Many people hate it (http://www.criandocuervos.com/?p=1035), while others give it a chance and see their great advantages (http://www.enelmedioblog.com/2007/07/18 / de-twitter-and-its-advantages-ii /) (http://www.enelmedioblog.com/2007/12/02/una-tonteria/).
Using it is as simple as log into the twitter homepage and fill in the text box your text with a maximum of 140 words, if the post is longer it can be read on the detail of it, but both on page principal, and in the media since the follow solamentes see the top and dots below.
Here is a video with a brief explanation of how simple it is to use and the "right":
Excellent note!
Very good ...