Twitter
Definition: Telling the world what you had for breakfast/lunch/dinner in 140 characters or less. Failing that, telling one specific person (with the use of Twitter's @replies) that you did not get a seat on the train either. In short, twitter is a way for text-addicts to keep texting, even when no one will listen.
Usage: "Just had the most AWESOME eggs." "@iYam OMG, I was totally stuck standing on the metro this morning too! Don't you hate that?!"
Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read other users' messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their friends list. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers.[7]
All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.[8] While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. The website is based in San Francisco, California. Twitter also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 175 million users.[9] Quantcast estimates Twitter has 54 million monthly unique U.S. visitors.[10] It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet."[11]
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