While Facebook is the social networking choice of many, the site is not best suited to sharing to-the-minute updates with your friends and contacts. For people who like to share updates with a high frequency, Twitter is the perfect choice.
In case you did not already know, Twitter is wonderful online social network that lets you share updates with others. Each status update is restricted to 140 characters and is called a Tweet. You can subscribe to the Tweets of other Twitter users by Following them. Tweeting streams of your followed accounts appear on your home page. The Tweets you like can be reTweeted to be shared with contacts. By shortening long URLs you can also easily share pictures and videos on the network; videos and pictures can be viewed in a sidebar that appears when you click on Tweets containing them.
Features:
- A user friendly web service.
- Lets you share updates with friends.
- Lets you share links to pictures and videos.
- Lets you re-share updates of others.
- Similar tools: TwitShift, MySkyStatus and Openbook.
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