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Recently twitter has emerged as one of the most popular networking sites. Twitter is a free social networking site that also offers micro blogging services. This service enables the users to send as well as receive messages, popularly known as ‘tweets’. Tweets are nothing but the posts not exceeding 140 characters. These posts consist of the message that is displayed upon the profile of the author and is delivered to the author’s subscribers known as the followers.

The evolution of Twitter was in a “daylong brainstorming session” that was organized by the members of Odeo- a podcasting company. It was in this meeting that jack Dorsey came up with the suggestion of the use of a SMS service by individuals to communicate with an entire group. This meeting was organized in 2006 and since then, the popularity of Twitter has been increasing consistently. The recognition of Twitter has surfaced worldwide and since it is used for sending and receiving short text messages, it is also known as “SMS of the Internet”.

The initial financial assistance was provided to Twitter by Obvious, a creative environment based in San Francisco. By March 2006, the first prototype of Twitter was conceived and it was launched in August 2006. Since then the services started getting popular and very soon, Twitter was out of Obvious and by May 2007, Twitter Incorporated was founded.

Most of you who operate Twitter regularly must be wondering how twitter is built! Well the company boasts of an excellent engineering team that works on an application framework known as Ruby on Rails. The reason for using this framework is that it allows working efficiently with ease. To make the site more popular, the engineers keep on changing its features several times a day and this is where Ruby on Rails helps the most.

Wondering what are the contents on tweets? Well, Pear Analytics- a San Antonio based research firm came up with the research that tweets are basically composed o the following six components:

* News
* Spam
* Self-promotion
* Pointless babble
* Conversational
* Pass-along value

Out of all these components, it was revealed that almost 41% of the tweets composed of pointless babble. The conversational messages were only 37.55%. So, where exactly does this pointless babble come from? Well a research shows that most of the people in the offices use Twitter while working. They use Twitter in their breaks and they Tweet even when they are on their desk. Tweeting helps them relax and feel fresh. According to Anna, a software consultant with a leading company, sending tweets helps her relax and increases her productivity manifold times. Whenever she is stressed out of work at the office, she logs on to Twitter and sends some stupid tweets to feel relaxed. Therefore, Twitter has become a prominent source of ‘Workplace internet Pleasure’ and these pointless babbles are becoming a way to help people vent out their stress.

To get started on twitter, all that you need is a Twitter account. Once you make it, you can have all the fun. Upload photos and start sending tweets. You can interact with your followers and send them any amount of tweets.

Though it might be sounding easy, usually people tend to get confused while working on Twitter. It might happen that you are looking for something on Twitter and you might leave your followers wondering what you are actually up to. So the best way to learn using Twitter is to tweet and retweet. Retweeting helps you improve your standing on Twitter. For Retweeting, the most common practice is to copy the original text with a ‘RT’ prefixed to it and posting it. This helps you learn tweeting better.

Twitter has been describes as one of the 50 popularly visited sites. Owing to its popularity, companies have found a better way to advertise their products. Several companies have started using Twitter for internet marketing and have witnessed increase in the popularity of their products.

So log on to twitter and speak your mind. Twitter is being used to create social awareness as well, like Demi Moore is using it to stop Women’s suicide attempts. So, use your Twitter your way and communicate to your followers all that you want to say.








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