2. Twitter
Twitter is a very popular Social Networking website, it is used worldwide.
Tweet
You have the ability to publicize Tweet; Write a short status of something interesting to communicate with your followers.
Character limit
The character limit for each tweet is 140, this limits you so that your tweet isn’t years long.
Hashtags
Hashtags are used to relate tweets towards a certain category. (#) Example: “OH MY!, The World trade centre has come down!” #Government
List of popular “trending” topics
Popular trends on Twitter offers a glimpse of what people are talking about around the world. Twitter offers trending topics for major cities and countries.
Direct messages
This allows you to directly message someone
retweets – sharing content
A retweet is when you share someone else's tweet on your page.
Following and followers
Having a twitter account allows you to gain Followers and allows you to follow other people. This feature enables you to be able to see peoples tweets and
it gives you the ability to Favourite and/or retweet their tweets.
Activities
On a users page there is an activity bar which shows you everything that person has been up to. E.G It will show if they have recently uploaded a new
image or recently watched a video on youtube.
@ and usernames
Your username on Twitter is important because it is how you are identified on the website, Your username must begin with an @ sign, This is so because
people are able to Tweet things and they can include your account name “Slayer were amazing last night @Harleyjones” now that person will see this
message in their notifications.
Notifications
Notifications are what you get when your username was mentioned in a tweet or if someone has retweeted something.
Very fast way to find out what is happening
There is a search bar which allows to search through trends and contacts.
3. Wikipedia
Online encyclopaedia
This resource provides the community with Unlimited information on anything that is searched. This benefits us because it has a load of
information about all types of stuff.
Editable by the public
The public are allowed to edit certain information but it must be clarified and if the statistics are proven false, wiki will take it off.
Lots of written information
The information you see
Pictures
Pictures are very helpful especially when your researching old stuff (Vikings, Romans or even The Lewis chessmen)
Title of article
Used to identify the article you are looking at.
Subheading
Subheadings are used so that you know what your looking at.
Contents box listing headings – jump to relative selection
This is very helpful because it saves time and effort which is crucial when you have lots of work to do.
Side bar with settings/preferences/content/suggestions
The sidebar holds lots of information and very helpful information too, it saves time which is essential when working on a long project, you can
set what language you want, it suggests certain helpful links.
Logo on top left – hyperlinked to front page
Easy way to navigate to the homepage.
Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks is a commonly used transition that allows people to get to specific parts of the website or to get to another website very fast.
References
The references are very helpful, they are links that will take you to other websites that may have extra information.
External Link
These are links are connected to other websites comprehending the same information.
