"For what Twitter is necessary? What is Twitter?" Such questions can be heard often from the people who are not especially understanding modern Internet technologies. But even many people familiar with social networks and the having accounts on Facebook or VKontakte, often do not understand that such attractive on Twitter.
In simple terms, Twitter is a microblog. Basic function of the microblog is a sending instant messages in which users share the thoughts with the whole world. The most interesting feature of Twitter is that updates in this blog (tweets) cannot exceed 140 signs. Brevity - the sister of talent! And you can express the thought in such compressed form? Such restriction on signs distinguishes Twitter from other social networks.
In fact mikroblog-this ideal invention for people who want to share the adventures with the world, but at the same time, there is no wish to go into details. Sometimes you have no desire to be let in extensive explanations as it is done by many users of "LiveJournal". Just there is a wish to tell "Went to shop behind a shirt, but so selected nothing" or "Watched film and has a little cry".
On Twitter one person, user group can send messages or to send personal updates to the friends. You can publish public or private messages which will be seen only by the addressee. Your own page can also be public or open only for friends.
If you have no account in Twitter yet, then you can register on the website in read seconds absolutely free of charge. Just fill a registration form, having specified the address of the e-mail and the password. Founders of network recommend to use real names that your friends recognized your page. However, many users prefer more creative approach. Having registered, you will be able to personalize the page, having downloaded the photo and having selected an interesting background.
After registration send to friends the address on Twitter. Usually it looks so: twitter.com/ваше name. For example, if you selected to yourself the alias Ghost, then your address will look as twitter.com/Ghost. To follow other users of Twitter, you need to visit their page and to press the follow button.
So, for what Twitter is necessary? Twitter is a unique resource for communication with friends which allows you to stay in the know of everything that occurs in the world. Many celebrities, television channels, clubs, the universities keep own pages on Twitter, telling the followers interesting news. Many companies use Twitter in link quality on advance of certain services or products. Enter family of Twitter and be aware!