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Originally Posted by GSeybold
Ok so what is Twitter? Is it like Facebook? I looked on to the main site and it looks so boring.
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Twitter is microblogging. That is blogging around the 140 character limit of the original SMS (text messaging) protocol. Its similar to Facebook in that you follow people and they follow you. When you follow someone you see all of their tweets (messages) on your Twitter homepage. Think of it primarily has a party line for text messaging. People use it for different purposes though.
I use it primarily to keep up with a few websites that I enjoy but don't have time to visit every day. I can easily go through their tweets and find interesting articles. Others use it to chat and follow each other through the day as well as learn new things both about the online world and offline.