Twitter is a popular social media site with over 200 million worldwide users that allows people to communicate short messages called tweets. Key conventions of Twitter include using hashtags to categorize tweets by topic, direct messaging for private conversations, retweeting to spread others' messages, and following accounts to receive their tweets. People use Twitter to share updates about their daily lives, news, celebrities, and trending topics through tweets, pictures, and hashtags.

1. Twitter conventions
It’s a very popular social interactive site, it has about 200 million worldwide users you
can communicate around the worldwide it’s used on websites and also mobile apps.

2. Conventions
Twitter is a quick way of finding out what is happening with celebrities, news,
media and many more things but sometimes it can give you false reports and
unreliable news.
Another convention Twitter use is #hashtags# it categorises the statues by
topic but also it’s a trend people to sometimes even categorises each word with
hashtags.
Popular trending topics are lists of topics users are mainly talking about which
also goes to the hashtags which also categorises those popular trending topics.
Direct messages is another way of users communicating to each other but only
with the users you choose so its more private and not to the whole public a bit
like messenger.
Twitter also has retweets which is when you share someone else’s status for
your followers to see so you can spread the word or gossip.
Another convention is eye witness accounts is famous people tweeting about
their daily life and sharing pictures.

3. People use twitter to make a short status which is a tweet that
they post for other users to see and it says ‘What’s happening?’
that has a character limit of 140.
A convention of twitter is followers and following,
following someone means you subscribe to their tweets
so you can get updates from them and followers people
that’s following you agrees to see your tweets and get
updates from you.

4. Another convention of Twitter is the @ sign this sign goes at the front
of the users name and it hyperlinks to the users profile another
convention to this is when doing this to someone’s user it will come up in
there notifications and activities showing if you receive a tweet or a
follower.

5. Form: Micro blogging social network
Structure:140 characters status, retweets, pictures.
Content: Individual’s expression
Technical convention: Check slides for conventions
Mode of address: Depends on individual source-
formal/informal/humurous/serious subjective