Twitter has over 500 million registered users who post 340 million tweets per day, showing its widespread popularity. There is a 140 character limit for tweets, requiring users to write short paragraphs. Hashtags are used to categorize tweets by topic and Twitter displays trending topics. Direct messages can only be sent between users that follow each other, while retweets allow sharing tweets with those who don't follow the posting user. The @ sign is used to mention other users in tweets. Notifications are used to alert other users.

1. Conventions of twitter
By Munira Mohamed

2. identifying the conventions
• Twitter is a very social and well known that has rapidly
gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million
registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million
tweets per day. This shows how well known they are.
• There’s 140 characters limit for those who tweet so
therefore they can only write a short paragraph.
• There’s hashtags this is categories the status by topics.
Twitter also gives people a list on what’s trending the
most on twitter.
• Twitter also has direct messages, they direct message
can only be sent to people who follow each other.

3. Identifying the conventions
• There's retweets this is a sharing content that can show people who don’t
follow you your tweet by showing it on the person who don’t follows you
page.
• There’s following and followers, these people are the only people who can
see the tweets you tweet.
• There’s an activities page to show what activities that are currently
happening on twitter.
• The @ sign is what people have to do when writing to someone on twitter
by writing the username with it.
• Notifications is what people use to notify people. Twitter is a very good
way to communicate with people from different places, it is a very
worldwide social network. It’s also a very fast way to find out what’s
happening in different places, as people always tweet when something's
happen.
• The sight can help people witness things very easily and it also can give
out false reports.