Every year there is a new internet phenomenon. In the past we have seen email, Google, Messenger, Wikipedia, You Tube, MySpace and Facebook.
Twitter is a "social networking system" like MySpace and Facebook. The difference is that you write messages with a maximum of 140 characters.
In your message you answer one simple question: "What are you doing now?"
Twitter is popular with "normal people", but it also popular with celebrities who use it as a blog. Barack Obama, Jhon McCain, Gordon Brown and Britney Spears all like Twitter. The simple format makes Twitter easy to use from a mobile phone. Many guests at Obama's presidential inauguration wrote Twitter messages during the ceremony. People watching on television complained about this.
A Twitter message is called a tweet.
"Tweet" is literelly the sound of a small bird: the symbol on the twitter website is a bird on a tree. The word twitter also refers to the sound of birds singing.
Humans can also twitter when they talk quicky or nervously.
In British English a twit is a stupid person.
Twitter may not be an intelligent word, but it is the new digital activity. It is replacing "chat" as the most important form of communication.
Other twitter words include follower, a person who "follows" a twitter's old messages; retweet, which means sending another person's message; and Twitterati, which describes the people who use twitter. Twitter is based in Silicon Valley, California.
Will Twitter replace Facebook? Who knows. According to the British newspaper The Financial Times, last year Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million. Twitter said no.
Teacher Marcius
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