Presented by: Balasubramanian Divya Jeyakumar

What is Twitter?

What is Twitter?

Twitter Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets .

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets .

What is tweets? Tweets are text based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers .

Tweets are text based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers .

FOUNDER OF TWITTER Twitter Was Developed By Jack Dorsey On March 21st 2006.

Twitter Was Developed By Jack Dorsey On March 21st 2006.

Reason Behind The Emergence of Twitter In a meeting Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group, a concept partly inspired by the SMS group messaging service TXTMOB.

In a meeting Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group, a concept partly inspired by the SMS group messaging service TXTMOB.

Twitter’s good for: Linking up with a community of people who share your interests. Live event reporting: finding out what people are talking away from conferences, debates, sporting events, etc., in real time

Linking up with a community of people who share your interests.

Live event reporting: finding out what people are talking away from conferences, debates, sporting events, etc., in real time

Getting started on Twitter Hop on over to twitter.com Set yourself up with an account by clicking on the blue “Get Started Join!” button

Hop on over to twitter.com

Set yourself up with an account by clicking on the blue “Get Started Join!” button

Sign up page

Home page

Profile

Find people Find on Tweets Find on other networks Invite by email Suggested users

Find on Tweets

Find on other networks

Invite by email

Suggested users

Find People

Find on Twitter

Find on other networks

Finding people on Twitter Another way is to check out the Twitter Nonprofit Pack at http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/

Another way is to check out the Twitter Nonprofit Pack at http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/

SETTINGS Account Password Devices Notices Picture Design

Account

Password

Devices

Notices

Picture

Design

Twitter’s privacy settings If you don’t want your updates to post to the public timeline and you don’t want people to be able to follow you without permission, you can lock your profile

If you don’t want your updates to post to the public timeline and you don’t want people to be able to follow you without permission, you can lock your profile

Password

Devices

Notices

Pictures

Design

Trending Topics

How messaging is done In twitter Two ways 1.Public messages 2.Direct messages

Two ways

1.Public messages

2.Direct messages

Public Messages It is simply an answer to the question, “what are you doing?” In that kind of twitter message we are broadcasting to the world the contents of our message.

It is simply an answer to the question, “what are you doing?” In that kind of twitter message we are broadcasting to the world the contents of our message.

Direct messages

Categorized messages

How Searching is done in twitter

Twitter status It shows the current status of the twitter that are being updated And also displays the related links about the updated topic

The User Multiface Browser • SMS • IM • RSS reader • FriendFeed • Facebook • blogs • widgets • desktop iPhone Blackberry.

Browser • SMS • IM • RSS reader • FriendFeed • Facebook • blogs • widgets • desktop iPhone Blackberry.

Some Examples Influential individuals Customer service Branding and relationships Direct sales Consumer products

Influential individuals

Customer service

Branding and relationships

Direct sales

Consumer products

Influential Individuals

Customer Service

Branding and Relationships

Direct Sales

Consumer Products

Features in Twitter Twitpic It leds you to share photo on twitter.It can be post through phone or through sites Digsby Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber

Twitpic

It leds you to share photo on twitter.It can be post through phone or through sites

Digsby

Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber

Twitterstats It takes the twitter usage and graphs that can be displayed on the web page or blog.

Twitterstats

It takes the twitter usage and graphs that can be displayed on the web page or blog.

Languages used in twitter C++ C#/.NET Cold fusion Eiffel Java JavaScript Objective-C/Cocoa Perl PHP PL/SQL Python Ruby Scala T-SQL VB.NET

C++

C#/.NET

Cold fusion

Eiffel

Java

JavaScript

Objective-C/Cocoa

Perl

PHP

PL/SQL

Python

Ruby

Scala

T-SQL

VB.NET

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