What the hell is Twitter?
Twitter is a system of microblogging (between us a concise and quick blog about everything). Basically consists of writing you're doing, with a limit of 140 characters, or whatever ... the goal is not to explain much, but to the point. The term microblogging (also known as nanoblogging) involves sending only text, but this obviously includes links, which can be shortened by some sites that deal with that as is the case with tinyurl that basically will generate an alias for a very useful web address shortened by limited number of characters imposed on us twitter .
Twitter has competitors like Jaiku (acquired by Google). The official site is www.twitter.com and each user has their own page, by adding at the official site / username. Another useful lanyard is that being just text allows us to use the phone and messengers, and posting via SMS or from a chat window adding to the contact of twitter, or so so comfortable and flexible to your twitterAmigos. The Rss, messaging programs and email are other ways to follow your friends.
Twitter is free. He began as a project startup in San Francisco in March 2006, and we demonstrated how such a simple idea can become very popular very quickly because of mass access to the network, Web 2.0 by a growing number most Internet users.
An idea as simple as twitter acts as a motivator for your idea, that you are inside your head, can be a great success in this ever-advancing world. It is also the emblem of development programming language Ruby On Rails, which pushed for numerous developments in a lot of startups, but 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 shows to go, you have to use it to know that he is able, because basically, your question, what are you doing? and a text box to detail it, not very attractive at first.
It can obviously be criticized, because it is an idea too open, and is in you, you can adapt it to be useful. For example, Twitter can be a good scorer of ideas, links, obviously you share with your friends ... you should not leave your CBU for example in a tweet. But it is very useful for help, to comment that you're doing and where someone could be interested. Because it is a noninvasive method of communication. To give an example, I tweeted to a friend, and he can answer with a tweet addressed to me, plus the answers are public on your profile, so you can use it to learn, take your questions, and others will serve him well as the answers you were helpful. Also our friends can see who answered and I said, this is used for personal messages to a particular user, the method consists in referring to tweet with @ username user.
It also allows 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 (http://www.criandocuervos.com/?p=1035), while others give it a chance and see its 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 read the detail of it, but both on page main, as 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 ...