Twitter is a social network and micro-blogging platform that allows you to send 140-character “tweets”.
With these tweets, you can let your friends know what you're up to, share links and cool resources, communicate with your customers, drive traffic to your website, and much more.
According to the Twitter website, Twitter allows you to answer the question, “What are you doing?”
Twitter allows you to communicate without the hassle of writing out long blog posts or emails. The format of the Tweet allows you to get away with a link and a few words that can be sent on the go from your cell phone.
And this tweet can potentially reach thousands of customers or business prospects, driving them to your website or blog, and drawing attention to your products.
In turn, you will receive notices whenever someone you are following Tweets something. You can receive instant notification in your browser, mobile phone, email, and even on IM clients like AIM or MSN Messenger. Basically, it's more or less impossible NOT to keep touch with your Twitter friends & followers, even if you're out and on the go.
Twitter's extremely simple interface and ease of use is probably one of the reasons why it has caught on like crazy.
Twitter was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, and in 2008/2009 it practically exploded in popularity.
Thanks for the tutorial. I am a pretty new member to WA and well able to set up account and tweet but thats it. Having explanations of the system in general terms is a mine full of gold. I very much interested in creating tutorials are such, just still on a huge learning curve.
Thank you.