Twitter



[|Twitter] is a social networking website which you can follow and tweet people from around the world. Twitter was made in 2006 and launched in July.This is a popular website used by many celebrities. Celebrities use Twitter as a way to communicate with their fans, they do this through tweets but as they are a celebrity millions of people will be tweeting them and it is very hard to get a celebrity to notice your tweet. On Twitter you can follow people which then makes thier tweets appear on your timeline. If you see a tweet you like you can retweet it and that will appear on somebodys timeline who follows you. If someone follows you you can then DM (direct message) them which is just to send them a private message. Therefore if someone does not follow you, you cannot send them a private messsage you will just have to tweet them.

Twitter has this thing called a trending topic, this is basically a good way to find out what people talk about on twitter most of the time. For example when everyone mentioned Rebecca Black in their tweet she became a trending topic because she was very popular at the time. Also trending topic is a good excuse for the news because actually twitter finds out about everything first. For example all the earthquakes in Japan were trending well before they were on the news. Twitter is a very popular website and the system usually the system becomes over capacity. This wale carried by tweety bird is usually referred to as the fail whale because whilst people are trying to upload pictures twitter becomes over capacity and the uploading fails :P.

However, There is a limit, If you tweet more than a 1000 times a day or 100 in a hour you go

got to twitter jail (basically that means you can't tweet for a hour) you also can't write more

than 250DM's per day.

Twitter Facts:
 * 1) Twitter raised over $57 million from venture capitalist growth funding
 * 2) The twitter web interface uses the ruby on rails framework.