What is Twitter Good For?
Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, gives you an easy way to share short messages with your friends or with the world. It helps you stay connected in real-time with people all around the world. Many people use it to talk to their friends. Others might use it to share something they just produced. The way you use Twitter is totally up to you. You can get sign up for Twitter here. It builds links that Google, Yahoo and Bing love.
Here is some Twitter lingo you might want to become familiar with:
- Twitter – The name of the service
- Twittering – The act of posting on Twitter
- Tweet – A message on Twitter
- RT (or Re-Tweet) – When you copy somebody else’s message and post it on your own Twitter profile
