Twitter users communicate through short posts called tweets that must be under 140 characters, they can choose to follow or unfollow other users to subscribe or unsubscribe to their tweets, and they can retweet or direct message each other privately.

1. Talktweets: posts made by twitter users, which must be under 140 charactersun/follow: un/subscribe to a particular users’ twitter postsRT: Retweet: tweeting content posted by another userDM / direct message: send a direct private message to another twitter usertweeps: friends on twittertweople: people who tweettweetup: meeting a twitter user/s in the real world