Twitter is a microblogging service that allows users to post messages called tweets that are limited to 140 characters. Tweets can be used to share information, seek opinions from others, and stay connected with friends and colleagues. Users follow other users on Twitter and see their tweets in their timeline. Retweeting allows users to share another user's tweet with their own followers. While Twitter has a global user base, research shows that users tend to follow others with similar interests and that reciprocity between users is relatively low compared to other social networks.

1. Twitter, a social Agenda
Presentation By
Dinesh Kumar A
BIM-32068

2. Agenda:
Twitter
Benefits of Twitter
Tweet
Tweeter Services
Geographical Distribution
Conclusion

3. What is Twitter?
It is microblog service of about six years old, which help
in identifying recent happenings.
It contains 140 character limit per message.
It has a traits of news media.

4. Why do people use Twitter
Twitter can make it possible to predict movie profits
based on tweets.
seeking for helps and opinions.
To get in touch with friends and collegues.
gathering useful information for one’s profession or other
personal interests.
Twitter is useful as a low cost channel for posting jobs,
coupons, and business announcements.

5. Tweets
Tweets are brief messages from a user to its followers.
The unique thing about tweet is that it is limited to 140
characters, and much shorter than blog post.
Tweet has its own particular abbreviation such as “RT“
(retweet) and “DM“ (direct message).

6. Retweets
It also means to forward a tweet to your followers.
Information is spread in Twitter in the form of reweet.
Retweet helps to validate others’ thoughts.

7. Twitter Services
Twitter creates the required infrastructure to make sure
that tweets which are written by users are transmitted to
all the User’s followers.
Tweets from the user's friends are conveyed to the user
in a well-timed method.
Twitter has API functions to obtain user-specific
information that can be used to build a network of friends.

8. Hashtag
In Twitter; phrases, words and hashtags are
trailed which are often stated.
Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed with the
symbol # character.

9. Twitter Growth Rate

10. Homophily
Homophily is a tendency that a contact between
similar people occurs at a higher rate than
among dissimilar people.
According to research, two users who follow
reciprocally share topical interests by mining their
50 thousands links

11. Reciprocity
Low reciprocity makes Twitter different from
other social networks.
Only 22.1 percent of Twitter user pairs follow
each other.

12. Geographical Distribution
Twitter provides limited profile information such
as name, bio, time zone and location.
Twitter’s popularity is global and the social
network of its users crosses continental
boundaries

13. Conclusion:
To a large extent, it shows that Twitter is more of
news media, and due to the low reciprocity
distinguish Twitter from other social networks.