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What is Twitter?: Twitter Week Day 1

One of the most difficult things to do in a Twitter guide is to define Twitter. That's because Twitter means different things to different people. At the heart of it – Twitter can be called a ‘micro blogging’ service under the umbrella of social networking tools centered around the basic question - ‘What are you doing?’ We'll begin our Twitter week with an attempt to answer the question 'What is Twitter?' We aim to make the meaning of twitter clear to the beginners and also to...

What is Twitter: Twitter in Plain English

Some time ago we told you something about Microblogging and Twitter. Well, here we are with an awesome video explaining What is Twitter in plain english. Enjoy! (Even if you know what Twitter is, do watch the video. It will help if you want to explain Twitter to someone who hasn't heard about it.) Twitter in Plain...

What is Micro Blogging?

Micro-blogging is a new form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates (Eg: 140 characters or fewer) or mini posts such as photos or audio clips and publish them. There are more than 100 micro blogging tools such as Plurk, Kwippy, Jaiku etc but the most famous microblogging service is Twitter. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based...