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Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites currently
(2010) operational. Twitter's service differs slightly from other
social networking sites. It's service has also been likened to a
blogging site. Therefore, you could categorise Twitter as both of
the following,
- Social Network
- Micro Blog
Twitter was founded by three people, who are as follows,
- Biz Stone
- Evan Williams
- Jack Dorsey
Twitter has it's head quarters in San Bruno, San Mateo County,
California, United States. San Bruno looks toward the San Francisco
Bay. It is located close to Silicon Valley, whose base is Santa
Clara Valley, which includes the city of San Jose, viewed as the
capital of Silicon Valley.
Twitter works like any other social networking site, in that, a
user signs up for a free account, and then they are assigned a page,
such as 'http://twitter.com/user". A user can then post an
unlimited amount of times. A post on Twitter is referred to as a
'tweet'.
The one restriction to a 'tweet' is it's character length. The
length is one hundred and forty characters. A user's tweets can
be set for public viewing, or, to be only accessed by a user's friends
list. However, the default setting is for a user's tweets to be
publicly accessed.
Alongside a user posting his own tweets, he/she can also signup
to follow other user's tweets. The Twitter homepage also contains
links to the most tweets of the day. Twitter has been acknowledged
for it's simplicity and ease of use.
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