First impression of twitter dot com Internet Articles | June 21, 2009 I have been on twitter for about one week now. I would like to share my first impressions of the site and the possible use of twitter to promote an online business. Twitter has a relatively l...
I have been on twitter for about one week now. I would like to share my first impressions of the site and the possible use of twitter to promote an online business.
Twitter has a relatively limited functionality. It can be regarded as simply a bulletin board for short updates (or "tweets"). You register an account with your name, username, a very brief bio and an optional photo. You build your network of people, by following people you find interesting or otherwise worthwhile to follow. Other people follow you Cheap Vikings Shirts , they become your followers. You will see all tweets posted by those you are "following", and your "followers" will see all tweets posted by you. You are more or less exected to follow-back the people who follow you, and of course you expect those you are following to follow you back.
Twitter presents a volatile bulletin board where all tweets from those you are following will appear on a scrolled list, one at a time, in chronological order. A new tweet appears at the top of the list Cheap Vikings Jerseys , and as new updates come in it travels down the list until it disappears. The size of a tweet is limited to 140 characters. The number of tweets in the system is huge, so an update may disappear quickly if you have a large number of following.