Twitter, The Microblogging Network

Although technology has taken many leaps and bounds, the information and technology (IT) sector has really taken everyone by storm. From never before seen graphics to useable communication techniques made available through cheap and efficient infrastructure, IT is the most happening place to be. The area of communications has seen exponential growth in recent years and continues to be a strong driving force behind the recent developments in social networking arena. Lately, the word ‘Twitter’ has become synonymous with the phrase ‘what’s going on?’ Taking the world by storm, this microblogging platform is an easy way for its users to tell their friends about their life. Read on to know more about this wonderful tool.

Giving its users the facility to communicate blurbs about their daily life, Twitter is a service that has seen an instant recognition from all spheres of audience from teenagers to senior citizens. Apart from the usual computer browsing, users can update their information in Twitter with various methods like SMS, instant messengers, widgets or through mobile browsing. While a simple text message to ‘40404’ allows you to tell your friends about your day, various applications on services like Facebook allow their customers to publish regular updates from within Facebook only. Not only useable for casual communication, businesses and corporate hoses also use Twitter to communicate effectively with their customers.

If you are a frequent traveler, an overseas student or a working lady, have you ever wanted that no matter where you are, your friends and well wishers always know where you are and how do you feel. Well, Twitter presents a solution for just that. Even basic small updates about what is going on with your life can easily let everyone know about your day to day experiences and thus the users of Twitter are always updated about the important events and functions of the lives of their fellow Twitters. Use of simple sentences to say what you are doing can prove to be very useful in letting everyone know about you, for example while a Twitter message saying ‘having a great day’ would let your colleagues know that you are happy and are enjoying the work at your organization, a Twitter message stating that you are on a vacation would let your colleagues know that you are on a holiday and not to be disturbed unless necessary.

Twitter can also be used like a note scribbler and an instant messenger so that you can send messages to your Twitter account and share them with the world if you want to. By default, Twitter is a publically viewable network so if you what your notes and ideas to remain secret, you should mark your messages as private so that they are rendered as only viewable by you. For using these settings users need to log on to their Twitter user account and check the ‘protect my updates’ checkbox so as to allow only selected people to see your Twitter messages.