What is Twitter?
Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.
What is tweets?
Tweets are text based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.
FOUNDER OF TWITTER
Reason Behind The Emergence of Twitter
Twitter’s good for:
Linking up with a community of people who share your interests.
Live event reporting: finding out what people are talking away from conferences, debates, sporting events, etc., in real time
Getting started on Twitter
Hop on over to twitter.com
Set yourself up with an account by clicking on the blue “Get Started Join!” button
Sign up page
Home page
Profile
Find people
Find on Tweets
Find on other networks
Invite by email
Suggested users
Find People
Find on Twitter
Find on other networks
Finding people on Twitter
Another way is to check out the Twitter Nonprofit Pack at http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/
SETTINGS
Account
Password
Devices
Notices
Picture
Design
Twitter’s privacy settings
If you don’t want your updates to post to the public timeline and you don’t want people to be able to follow you without permission, you can lock your profile
Password
Devices
Notices
Pictures
Design
Trending Topics
How messaging is done In twitter
Two ways
1.Public messages
2.Direct messages
Public Messages
It is simply an answer to the question, “what are you doing?” In that kind of twitter message we are broadcasting to the world the contents of our message.
How Searching is done in twitter
Twitter status
The User Multiface
Browser • SMS • IM • RSS reader • FriendFeed • Facebook • blogs • widgets • desktop iPhone Blackberry.
Some Examples
Influential individuals
Customer service
Branding and relationships
Direct sales
Consumer products
Influential Individuals
Customer Service
Branding and Relationships
Direct Sales
Consumer Products
Features in Twitter
Twitpic
It leds you to share photo on twitter.It can be post through phone or through sites
Digsby
Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks
digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber
Twitterstats
It takes the twitter usage and graphs that can be displayed on the web page or blog.
Languages used in twitter
C++
C#/.NET
Cold fusion
Eiffel
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C/Cocoa
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Scala
T-SQL
VB.NET
3. TWITTER
•Twitter is a free social
networking and micro-
blogging service that
enables its users to
send and read messages
known as tweets.
4. WHAT IS TWEETS?
Tweets are text
based posts of up to
140 characters
displayed on the
author's profile page
and delivered to the
author's subscribers
who are known as
followers.
6. REASON BEHIND THE EMERGENCE OF
TWITTER
•In a meeting Jack Dorsey
introduced the idea of an
individual using an SMS
service to communicate
with a small group, a
concept partly inspired by
the SMS group messaging
service TXTMOB.
7. TWITTER’S GOOD FOR:
Linking up with a community of people who share your
interests.
Live event reporting: finding out what people are talking
away from conferences, debates, sporting events, etc., in
real time
8. GETTING STARTED ON TWITTER
Hop on over to
twitter.com
Set yourself up with an
account by clicking on
the blue “Get Started
Join!” button
29. TWITTER’S PRIVACY SETTINGS
If you don’t want your
updates to post to the
public timeline and you
don’t want people to be
able to follow you without
permission, you can lock
your profile
36. HOW MESSAGING IS DONE IN
TWITTER
Two ways
1.Public messages
2.Direct messages
37. PUBLIC MESSAGES
It is simply an answer to the question, “what are
you doing?” In that kind of twitter message we are
broadcasting to the world the contents of our
message.
60. FEATURES IN TWITTER
Twitpic
It leds you to share photo on twitter.It can be post
through phone or through sites
Digsby
Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks
digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with
all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk,
and Jabber
61. Twitterstats
It takes the twitter usage and graphs that
can be displayed on the web page or blog.
62. LANGUAGES USED IN TWITTER
C++
C#/.NET
Cold fusion
Eiffel
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C/Cocoa
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Scala
T-SQL
VB.NET