Definitions and characteristics
Transcript of Definitions and characteristics
Twitter What is Twitter• The word Twitter means to chirp• In communicative term it means micro blogging.• It is a simple way of communicating by sending
message in 140 characters to friends, family or to general public.
• It is a fast and short way to send connect and exchange message and information with friends and with general public similar to that of tweet of a bird
• The program was launched in 2006 as communication platform
• Twitter, and ‘’tweeting’’ is about broadcasting daily short burst messages to the world, with the hope that your messages are useful and interesting to someone.
• Twitter is about discovering interesting people online, and following their burst messages for as long as they are interesting.
• Twitter and “tweeting”is about broadcasting daily short burst messages to the world with the hope that your messages are useful and interesting to someone .
• Twitter is about discovering interesting people online and following their burst messages for as long as they are interesting.
• Twitter is a social networking website ,twitter is the best way to discover what's in your world.
• A tweet can be a message , an emotion , a picture.• Twitter messages are text messages . They can contain Links to
web pages ,Photoes,or Short Films .
•Tweets are posts. They appear in chronological order.
•Tweets are posts. They appear in chronological order.
You can tweet using your phone or your PC
Search to WWW.Twitter.com
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#
Twitter Special Characters
Direct a message to a specific user
Mark a subject
Re-tweet ,the message will be repeated or forwarded
Characteristics Of Twitter
However, Twitter is not just for tweeting. It also has many characteristics . Among them are:
Twitter allows you to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets)
Twitter messages(tweets) are limited to 140 characters (microblogging)
-You can register at twitter sign up page and tweet !
-The Tweet button – Tweet buttons let people share your website or blog content.
-You can restrict delivery to your circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default).
• “Follow Me” button – “Follow Me on Twitter” buttons come in various styles and they are an attractive way of tempting followers through your site or blog.
Who to follow - Twitter’s “Who to follow” is a surprisingly helpful resource. The “View Suggestions” tab offers you a number of Twitter accounts that you might want to follow .
• You can search for people by name or user name, import friends from other networks, or invite friends via email.
• Searches – Twitter is not only allowing you to run searches, you can also save the results of said searches and this is an extremely useful feature. These pre-saved searches will then be accessible to you as linked tabs.
-You can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS(text messages), RSS (receive only), emails or a third party application.
-Twitter for business - Twitter has its own extremely handy business guide including a glossary, best practices, case studies and tips on optimizing your Twitter activity .
Lists – Twitter’s lists are yet another indispensible tool. They really help you clean up the clutter and group your contacts into categories of your choice.
Advertising on Twitter – You can also advertise on Twitter.
Twitter Tales – Most people don’t know or don’t care about this feature but we find this quite interesting. Twitter Tales are basically Twitter’s compilation of stories from Twitter users related to the communities or just pure fun.
140 charestertic Simplicity Fast Use of hashtag Open & leading communication with large numbers
of people at the same time Following a discussion
Characteristics of twitter
Presented by
Dalal zuairand
Najat alharbi