My usual attitude about following Twitter is that I read that stuff so you don’t have to. Twitter, for those of use who might find themselves challenged in the social media milieu, is a microblogging and social networking site. Users send each other “tweets”, which are limited to 140 characters and often include “hashtags” (short hand references) and “tiny urls” (links to articles on the web that have been shortened to fit the format).
Twitter as a social network revolves around the principle of followers. Opt to follow another user and that person’s tweets appear in reverse sequential order when you log on. Most of what you end up seeing is predictably banal, not unlike people’s status updates on Facebook. The company estimates that 65 million messages are posted daily.
