From Lankyland
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What is Twitter?
Twitter is a Status Update site. Users are provided with 140 characters to convey their current status.
Using Twitter
There are multiple ways of using Twitter.
The Regular Method
Go to twitter.com, create for yourself an account and then start posting.
Once you are up and posting you can starting Following another user. When you follow another user their Status Updates (or Tweets as they are now becoming known) show up on your main page when you are logged in.
You can reply to people by making a Status Update and including the @ followed by their username, example:
@anotheruser lik OMG i saw u on the road and lik w0w
That person can then find all messages with @anotherusername from their own Twitter homepage.
You can also send a Direct Message that will not be publicly viewable
D anotherusername OMG this is a private message
The API Method
Twitter has a rather fun API that allows developers to build applications that can interact with Twitter. Check out the Twitter API page for some examples of code that I have used.
