Twitter is a social media platform that allows users to post short messages called tweets. Tweets can be up to 140 characters and are displayed on a user's profile page. Users can follow other users to see their tweets in their home feed. Users can reply to or mention other users by including the @ symbol followed by their username. They can also retweet others' tweets by including RT at the beginning. Direct messages allow for private communication between users who follow each other. Users can customize their profile and see trending topics on Twitter.

1. Basics

2. What is ? A free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read brief messages.

3. - Messages are known as “Tweets” - intended to answer the question “What are you doing?” - Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters long. - Users have a profile page where their Tweets are displayed. Basics

7. Additional Capabilities - Tweeters can upload images and videos to 3rd party websites and put a link in their status that directs followers to view the media.