hey guys I'm bill from gcflearnfree.org
and today I want to talk about Twitter
so what is Twitter exactly maybe you
heard of it before and maybe not but
either way it's important to know that
Twitter is a social networking website
it's a bit like Facebook but it's not
leered toward finding your friends or
connecting with people you already know
at its core twitter is about sharing
what's going on in your world and
following along with topics that are
important to you now you can use Twitter
from your desktop or laptop computer but
the most popular way to use Twitter is
from a smartphone that's because Twitter
is so focused on real time in the moment
updates about things that are happening
right now
since Twitter is so geared toward mobile
users we're primarily going to be
demonstrating how to use Twitter from a
smartphone but if you're using a regular
computer you can still follow along
Twitter works basically the same way no
matter what device you're using this is
the Twitter app for a smartphone let's
take a look at how it works
okay so this is the Twitter homescreen
and from here we can see posts from
people that we follow on Twitter every
post on Twitter is called a tweet as you
can see everything is really short and
that's because posts on Twitter are
limited to just 140 characters which
isn't more than a few sentences it's so
little information that it might seem
like it's not even worth sharing but in
a way that's what makes Twitter so
useful it's easy to follow along with
things that are happening in real time
and see people's reactions to them as
they happen
you can also post your own tweets to
share what's going on in your world or
join a bigger conversation about a
popular topic okay so those are just the
absolute basics of Twitter but check out
the rest of our tutorial to learn more