Twitter

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The first and main microblogging.

Blogging was popular in those days, the main disadvantage was the huge amount of garbage. A sensible post or not, you won’t understand until you read it, but I really don’t want to read for this.
So the idea came to make a short message service, because brevity is the sister of talent. Hence the name MicroBlog.
It is necessary to put a person in conditions so that he briefly and concisely expresses his thought. In addition, no one bothers to put a link to the full article. If you would like to read more, please follow the link provided.

An important part was the ability to post via SMS.
There were a number of advantages: fasting was limited to the size of SMS and mobility appeared.
Thus, if an event or a natural disaster happened somewhere, or something else significant, one could get first-hand operational information.

The disadvantage was the difficulty of adding a link to the post. The link can be very long. Link shortening services came to the rescue.
When the era of mobile phones came, the need to use SMS disappeared and Twitter simply did not take into account the size of the link, only the text of the post, which was increased, was considered. Still, the SMS size is too short.

Restrictions

The main reason for the innovations: previously verified accounts were created for free, and thus it was possible to increase the popularity of posts and the reliability of information.
Now verified accounts can be obtained by subscription, only $10 per year.
Now no one knows who will create thousands of supposedly reliable accounts.

1. you can read up to 1000 posts per day,
2. new users with unverified accounts can read up to 500 posts per day,
3. users with verified accounts can now read up to 10,000 posts per day,
4. 500 messages per day,
5. 2400 tweets per day,
6. changing the email associated with the account - 4 per hour,
7. reading accounts - 400 per day,
8. post limit 280 characters (originally it was 140 characters for SMS size),
9. Twitter Blue followers post limit 4000 characters,
10. the maximum number of users that can be subscribed to is 5000 people,
11. Twitter username can be up to 15 characters long.

Retweets count as tweets.

Initially, you could only send text, now you can add photos and videos.

The following is about uniqueness and popularity:

• Twitter founders are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
• The word Twitter was added to the 30th anniversary edition of the Collins English Dictionary.
• Twitter is the weapon of the opposition.
• Twitter has signed a contract with the studios Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment for the creation of a television series (reality show), the action of which will take place around this site.
• Samsung released a widget for Twitter, which literally brought the world of microblogging to the TV screen.

Twitter is a free social network that is a microblogging system that allows users to send short text notes (up to 280 characters), Using the web interface, SMS, instant messaging services or third-party client programs.

There is a possibility of 'follow'. Just choose any Twitter party you like, click the Follow button, and all the posts of this blogger will appear on your page. Usually no permission is required.

What is the phenomenon of Twitter?

In such a short time, he got into the 20 most visited sites, many leading companies have got Twitter? What is its zest? At a time when everyone is frantically looking for a new idea, know-how. It would seem that nothing can be more interesting than social networks. Suddenly, there is an absolutely simple service with short messages and it already wants to buy Google.

1. Simplicity - it's very easy to write there, you do not need to enter it, once you enter and then you do not need to enter anything, everything is extremely simple and obvious.
2. Custom Design - it's easy to customize the design.
3. Laconism - I am a very busy person and do not like reading blogs where a person can pour out his soul as much as he likes. But the limitation of 280 characters (шт the beginning 140 - SMS size) makes it be concise. I connected (follow) myself Yandex and now I can quickly learn their changes from the first hands.
4. SMS - you can send messages via SMS (while for USA), but there is our clone where you can Use SMS.
5. Integration with Facebook, Blogger, Myspace (the world's leading social network) - write a message on Twitter and it's on your Facebook wall ...
6. You can put a widget, Like from us and your twitter automatically appears on your website, blog. You can put a nice widget made on a flash or plain text on HTML that fits into the design of your website or blog. Widgets can be taken here.

That is, the main thing is simplicity and integration. In this case, no advertising.

Integrated with Twitter

• Master mail - Gmail (gadget connection instructions)
• Facebook, Blogger, Myspace, Typepad
• The leading bookmarking service is Delicious
• Russian clone - chikchirik.ru
• Your site, blog.

Twitter Effect

We see in the figure that

1. the information first appears on Twitter,
2. after 1.5-3, 5 hours the information appears on news sites,
3. after 2.3-5 hours on radio,
4. after 2.7-7 hours on TV,
5. in 8 hours in newspapers, magazines.

Well, most importantly - we started Twitter (ph4ru), subscribe :).

TweetDeck

Platform, integrated in Twitter. With which it is easier to manage Twitter, sort and view Tweets, statistics. View the tape of messages of the followers, determine the location of friends. And you can do everything for several accounts in one place.