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Transcript of Twitter
•Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.
WHAT IS TWEETS?
Tweets are text based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.
REASON BEHIND THE EMERGENCE OF TWITTER
• In a meeting Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group, a concept partly inspired by the SMS group messaging service TXTMOB.
TWITTER’S GOOD FOR: Linking up with a community of people who share
your interests.
Live event reporting: finding out what people are talking away from conferences, debates, sporting events, etc., in real time
GETTING STARTED ON TWITTER
Hop on over to twitter.com
Set yourself up with an account by clicking on the blue “Get Started Join!” button
FINDING PEOPLE ON TWITTER
Another way is to check out the Twitter Nonprofit Pack at http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/
TWITTER’S PRIVACY SETTINGS If you don’t want your
updates to post to the public timeline and you don’t want people to be able to follow you without permission, you can lock your profile
PUBLIC MESSAGES
It is simply an answer to the question, “what are you doing?” In that kind of twitter message we are broadcasting to the world the contents of our message.
TWITTER STATUS
It shows the current status of the twitter that are being updatedAnd also displays the related links about the updated topic
THE
USER MULTIFACE
Browser • SMS • IM • RSS reader • FriendFeed • Facebook • blogs • widgets • desktop iPhone Blackberry.
SOME EXAMPLES
Influential individuals Customer service Branding and relationships Direct sales Consumer products
FEATURES IN TWITTER
Twitpic It leds you to share photo on twitter.It can
be post through phone or through sites
Digsby Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you
chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber
LANGUAGES USED IN TWITTER C++ C#/.NET Cold fusion Eiffel Java JavaScript Objective-C/Cocoa Perl PHP PL/SQL Python Ruby Scala T-SQL VB.NET