WHAT IS TWITTER (Twitter: What Is It?) ?
Twitter is an online social networking service as well as micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". (Twitter is a mini-blogging platform that you can use to send messages of 140 characters or less to family, friends, or just the general Web community at large. Twitter was launched in 2006 and boasts over 140 million users at the time of this writing, collectively sending millions of messages, called "tweets", every day).
URL FOR TWITTER : https://twitter.com
It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since its launch, the Twitter website has become one of the top 10 most visited on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet." Unregistered users can read the tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices.
