Chapter 15
Joining the Twitterverse
In This Chapter
Taking the measure of Twitter
Using Twitter
Customizing your account
Using your phone to tweet
Bringing Twitter and your blog together
While I was watching a well-known sitcom on TV the other day, a character mentioned Twitter. If that’s not mainstream, I don’t know what is! But just because Hollywood knows about Twitter doesn’t mean that you don’t have questions, so this chapter gets down to brass tacks.
Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a free social network used for micro blogging, which is essentially blogging, but in very short form. How short? Well, on Twitter, your posts are limited to 140 characters — barely enough for a couple of sentences. If you use Facebook, you may be surprised to know that you’re already familiar with micro blogging.
Although you can post only up to 140 characters of text at a time on Twitter, you can use it to share photographs and links, even videos. Many businesses have jumped onto the Twitter bandwagon ...
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