[5] Twitter is a social network that allows users to
send and receive shortmessages , called
tweets. Tweets can be up to one hundred
forty characters long. You can send tweets
[10] from your computer or even from your mobile
phone. While some social networking services
are like Facebook or MySpace are
more complicated Twitter is fairly simple to
use. To send or receive messages you just
[15] have to create an account on Twitter. You can
only send text to twitter, images are not
allowed. Twitter users can follow what other
people post. It makes you feel a part of
someone else’s life. People all over the world
[20] talk about all kinds of topics. In most cases
Twitter is made up of
many small groups of people. Sometimes only they can follow each
other’s movements.
You could post “Hey, I’m going to the pub”,
[25] and all of your friends could read it at once.
Your messages on Twitter can be private,
meaning only your friends can read them or
you could make them public, meaning they
can be seen by everyone. Twitter is used for
[30] many things. You can post an upcoming
event, organize group conversations or just
tell the world what you’re doing at the
moment. You can also use twitter instead of
sending many SMS’s to different people. Just
[35] post your messages on Twitter and everyone
else can see them. Many people update their
Twitter status very often, sometimes even
a couple of times an hour. Recently, Twitter
has also been used ∈ business. Companies
[40] use twitter to inform people about new
products or just to post something that is on
sale. Twitter has become very popular. Since
its birth ∈2006 over one hundred million
people around the world have been using
it regularly
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