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. 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. FOUNDER OF TWITTER Reason Behind The Emergence of Twitter 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 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 Sign up page Home page Profile Find people 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/ SETTINGS 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 Password Devices Notices Pictures Design Trending Topics How messaging is done In twitter 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. How Searching is done in twitter Twitter status The User Multiface 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 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 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