Hey, guys! I'm Bill from GCFLearnFree.org, and today I want talk
about Twitter. So what is Twitter exactly? Maybe you've 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 really geared
toward finding your friends and we're 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 be demonstrating how to use Twitter from
a smartphone, but if you're using a regular computer you can still follow along—
it works basically the same way no matter what device are you using.
This is the Twitter app for iPhone. Let's take a look at how it works.
OK, so this is the Twitter home screen and from here we can see the 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 of posts on Twitter are limited to just a hundred and forty 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 on with things that are happening in
real-time and see people's reactions to them as they happen
Yu can also post your own tweets about what's going on in your world or
join a bigger conversation about a popular topic.
OK, so those just the basics of Twitter, but check out the rest of our tutorial to learn more!