What is Twitter?

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short messages called tweets these messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers & are searchable on Twitter.

What are the benefits?

You can keep in touch with your friends online and can get fastest updates from them. you can share your video, ideas, plans with thousand of your friends, followers.

How to sign Up, Join or create Twitter Account?

Click on the Sign up now button on http://twitter.com or put the linkhttps://twitter.com/signup in your browser to get sign up with Twitter.
Once you will create your account, you will be logged in but you will have to click on verification link, which has been sent to your email address that you have mentioned while creating your account. Once you will click on verification link, you will be able to update your messages.

What does it mean to follow someone on Twitter?

Following someone simply means receiving their Twitter updates. When you follow someone, every time they post a new message, it will appear on your Twitter home page. New messages are added to your home page as people post them, so you always get the updates in real time. When you log in, you can see what the latest updates are. Twitter offers other ways to follow people too: you can get updates from certain people on your phone!

How do I know who I'm following?

After you click the follow button on someone's profile, you're following them. The follow button will change to a green check mark next to the word "Following" with an actions button on the right to remove a person if you want to. If you've registered your phone with Twitter, you can set up text preferences for a person as well. See a list of people you're following by clicking on the following link on your profile or your home page's sidebar.

How do I know who is following me?

Twitter sends you an email when someone new follows you. Set up your email preferences to notify you when you have a new follower. The followers link on your profile page or home page's sidebar will also tell you how many followers you have.

What are follow limits?

Twitter recently added follow and update limits for stability and abuse control. Direct Messages: 250 per day.API Requests: 150 per hour. Updates: 1,000 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as updates.
Following (daily): Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior. You can find detailed page describing following limits and prohibited behavior on the Follow Limits and Best Practices Page. The technical follow limit is 1,000 per day.