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Hey, guys! I'm Bill from GCFLearnFree.org, and today I want talk

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about Twitter. So what is Twitter exactly?
Maybe you've heard of it before and

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maybe not, but either way it's important
to know that

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Twitter is a social networking website.
It's a bit like facebook, but it's not really geared

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toward finding your friends and we're
connecting with people you already know.

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At its core, Twitter is about sharing
what's going on in your world and

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following along with topics that are
important to you. Now you can use Twitter

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from your desktop or laptop computer, but the most popular way to use Twitter is

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from a smartphone. That's because Twitter is so focused on real-time, in-the-moment

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updates about things that are happening
right now. Since Twitter is so geared

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toward mobile users, we're primarily going be demonstrating how to use Twitter from

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a smartphone,  but if you're using a regular computer you can still follow along—

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it works basically the same way no
matter what device are you using.

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This is the Twitter app for iPhone. Let's take a look at how it works.

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OK, so this is the Twitter home screen and from here we can see the posts from people that we follow on Twitter.

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Every post on Twitter is called
a tweet. As you can see, everything is

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really short , and that's because of posts on Twitter are limited to just a hundred and forty characters,

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which isn't more than a few sentences. It's so little information

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that it might seem like it's not even
worth sharing, but in a way that's what

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makes Twitter so useful. It's easy to follow on with things that are happening in

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real-time and see people's reactions to
them as they happen

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Yu can also post your own tweets about
what's going on in your world or

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join a bigger conversation about a
popular topic.

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OK, so those just the basics of Twitter, but check out the rest of our tutorial to learn more!