Twitter is an example of a micro blog. Based on usage twitter can also be referred to as a short message service. Twitter is an online social network that is used to stay in touch with friends’ family members and coworker through computers and mobile phone. The interface of twitter allows users to post short message of about 140 characters that can be viewed by any other person that uses twitter. Twitter allows people to declare the people they interested in following and those people will be notified. The follower gets to see the message whenever the people they are following get to post anything.
Twitter users are allowed to update directly and indirectly. Direct post is when a user targets a specific person in her post. Indirect post is when an update is for anyone that feels like reading it. The term use for someone that has interest in the status of another is called follower.
In most cases, there are two categories of twitter user. The first category is those that have a large number of followers that those they are following. The other category is those that follow more people that they follow than people following them. The number of friends might be used to know if a user is active or not.
What is tweet?
The message posted on twitter is called a tweet and the maximum tweet that is allowed is 140 characters. To receive or send a tweet, a user must open a free account with twitter. Twitter can be use as a blog and be kept public meaning anyone can read all tweets kept public on personal twitter profile page of a user. Network of contracts can be built by inviting other twitter users to read tweets.
Limitation of tweets
A tweet can only contain 140 characters. Text are only allowed but no pictures or videos are allowed. A picture or video or any multi media can only be included in a tweet indirectly. This is achieved by locating a web that can host the files and sending a message that contain the page address to twitter networks. Twitter changes all address that more than 30 characters into tiny URL. tiny URL is a URL shortening service that converts long URL into different short URL but can be redirected to the long URL which is the main address.
Web syndications used in twitter
Web syndication is the gathering of application from one source and sending it out to different destinations. There are different syndication format used on the web but twitter is compatible with two of them. the two syndication employed by twitter are : really simple syndication , otherwise known as RSS and Atom format called Atom. Both format can be use to collect data from one source and then transfer it to another. Atom and RSS consist of a few lines of codes which can be embedded by a web based administrator into his or her own site’s code. Visitors can register to this syndication service called the feed and get an update every time an administrator post any new materials on the web sever. Twitter uses these features to allow twitter members to post a message to a network of other twitter members and also allows twitter member to subscribe to other twitter members field.
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