Twitter 101

So, what is Twitter?
Quite often, people’s gut reaction to Twitter is, “No one needs to know
what I’m doing” or “I don’t care what other people are doing.”
While this may be the surface view, Twitter is also a great way to expand
your network. In the words of Chris Brogan, Twitter is a useful communication tool that allows you to
interact with people around the world in three different ways:
1) Send a short message to a bunch of people publicly
2) Send a short message to a specific person publicly
3) Send a short message to a specific person privately

Twitter is also referred to as a "micro‐blogging" service, meaning you can post short updates limited to
140 characters or less. Why? Originally, the limitation was created to make Twitter compatible with
mobile phones and text messaging. Now, it’s a useful characteristic that allows users to receive rapidfire,
concise information from many, many people!