Becoming Familiar With Twitter

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It seems like you see Twitter just about everywhere you look these days, and not just online, as even news broadcasts and television shows seem to talk about Twitter; if you do not have a Twitter account of your own, however, you might not quite understand what Twitter is, how it is used, or how you can use it yourself.

If you are a facebook user, thinking about Twitter as being the same as status updates on facebook is the best way to understand it – except, of course, that it is not on facebook, and that Twitter limits you to 140 characters (which means letters, numbers, punctuation, and spaces).

On Twitter, you will have your “home page” (which is where you will see a live stream of tweets from every person you follow), as well as your “profile page” (where everyone can go to see all your tweets); if you want to see someone’s tweets as part of your feed, you can follow them – or, if you want to just read their tweets every so often, you can simply visit their profile page instead.

It is also possible to tag a person in a post by simply using the "@" symbol, followed by that person's Twitter name; if you tag someone at the start of a tweet, it will not show up in the news feeds of others, whereas your tweets will still show up in others’ news feeds if you tag people in the middle of a tweet.

Of course, regardless of where within a tweet you tag someone, people will still be able to see any of your tweets when they visit your profile page, so make sure you use the "direct message" function on Twitter if you want to send someone a private message.

People use Twitter in a number of different ways – to keep up with news or with their favorite celebrities, to interact with friends, or simply to post thoughts of their own – but regardless of how you end up using Twitter yourself, the first thing you need is to understand what it even is!