Twitter

Twitter is a website owned and operated by Twitter Inc.., which offers a Micro-blogging social network that allows users to send and read messages are called tweets. Tweets are text posts to 140 characters are displayed on the user profile pages. Tweets can be seen outside, but the sender can restrict delivery of messages to their friends list only. Users can see the tweets of other writers known as followers.

All users can send and receive tweets via Twitter site, compatible external applications (mobile phones), or with a short message (SMS) available in certain countries. This site is based in San Bruno, California near San Francisco, where the site was first created. Twitter also has a server and an office in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.

Since established in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users. This is sometimes described as "SMS from the internet"
Already more than 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007. Then developed menjad 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008. At the end of 2009, 2 billion per quarter tweets are posted. In the first quarter of 2010, 4 billion tweets are posted. In February 2010 Twitter users send 50 million tweets per day. In June 2010, approximately 65 million tweets are posted every day, equivalent to about 750 tweets are sent every second, according to Twitter.


Twitter users will become more active when there is a notable event. For example, the record created at the 2010 World Cup, when fans write in 2940 tweets per second in the second period 30 after Japan scored a goal against Cameroon on June 14, 2010. Records were broken again when the 3085 tweets per second that are posted after winning the Los Angeles Lakers in NBA Finals 2010 on June 17, 2010. This also happens when the singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, the server is down because of Twitter users update their status to include the words "Michael Jackson" on the level of 100 000 tweets per hour.
Content In Twitter
Home
On the main page we can see the tweets are sent by people who become our friends. Also on this main page
Profile
on this page to be viewed by all persons on the profile or the data themselves and the tweet that has been posted.
Follower
Followers are other users who want to make us as friends. When other users into account one's followers, then follow the tweets someone he will enter into the main page.
Following
The opposite of a follower, someone Following is the account that follows another user account for tweets sent by people who followed it into the main page.
Mentions
Usually, this content is the reply from the conversation to fellow users can simply mark the person who will be invited to speak.
Favorite
Tweets marked as a favorite for not missing the previous page.
Direct Message
More direct message function can be called SMS for sending messages directly between users without any other users who can see the message except the user who sent the message.
Hashtag
marker is written in front of a particular topic for other users can find similar topics written by others as well
List
Following twitter users can group them into one group or list. making it easier to be able to see the whole of the username that they follow
Trending Topic
the topic being discussed many many users in a same time
Contents Tweet
Contents Tweets by Pear Analytics.
• News
• Spam
• self-promotion
• Celoteh does not mean
• Conversation
• Pass-along value