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= **Twitter** =

==== Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 140 million active users as of 2012[|[5]], generating over 340 millions tweets daily[|[5]] and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.[|[7]][|[8]] It has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."[|[9]] 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.[|[10]] ==== ==== Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City. The Twitter website is one of the top ten most visited on the Internet.[|[4]] ====

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging specifically: allows users to send and read each update, known by the end of tweets.
==== The name "Twitter", derives from the English verb "to tweet" which means "chirp"."Tweet", in addition to being a word that indicates the chirping and 'also the technical term updates microblogging service. ====

The service and 'free on the Internet, while SMS uses a telephone service charges.
==== Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity 'around the world.Often referred to as "SMS of Internet", through its programming interface (API) and other web-based applications to send and receive short text messages. ====

Estimates of the number of daily users who use Twitter can vary, because 'society' does not officially release the number of active accounts.
==== In november 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated 4-5 million users. A February 2009 Compete.com blog ranked him as the third most social 'use of the network with 6 million unique visitors per month. ====

In March 2009 Nielsen.com ranked him as the web phenomenon with the more 'high growth rate (1382%) followed by Facebook with 228%.
==== Twitter and 'financially supported by Union Square Ventures, Digital Garage, Spark Capital and Bezos Expedition (led by Jeff Bezos of Amazon). Following Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital backed Twitter in 2009, with a further investment of $ 35 million. ====

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**//__Lists:__//** within groups are created by users of Twitter and let you organize timelines, in order to group people in a specific field to indicate the argument that some users prefer to 'tweet'. =====

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Trends / Trending Topic: are the most popular topics on Twitter at some time, appear in the right sidebar of Twitter profile and based on a set of features, including the amount of tweets and retweets received. =====

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**//__@ Mentions:__//** is any mention of a Twitter update that contains the @ symbol as the username in the body of the message (tweet). More than one user may be listed in a single tweet, provided that all user names are followed by the symbol '@'. =====

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**//__@ Reply:__//** written at the beginning of a tweet, an '@ reply' indicates a direct correspondence between the user that sent the message and the person who receives it. To make this happen will need to type '@' and then a specific user name at the beginning of your tweet. This function is often used to facilitate two-way conversation between two Twitter users. =====

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Finally, if you are looking for another word in the dictionary that Twitter is not listed here, simply connect to the site Twittonary, which may help to understand the meaning of specific terms that are used frequently on Twitter. =====

http://www.twittonary.com