What the heck is a tweet?

[scrappinmom]

ok, I JUST figured out the whole facebook thing...now I need to look for the DIS on twitter? holy cow, the laundry may never get done.....

 

[FireDancer]

A tweet is a twitter post or status update. If one of the people I follow tweet something which I find interesting and pass along to those following me, it is a re-tweet.

 

[Yvet]

Tweet tweet re-tweed.
Tweed tweed tweed re-tweed tweed re-tweed re-re-tweed...

I see births flying around my head....

 

[stitchlover]

I tweeter. Well, not too much. I actually have people I follow on tweeter manly. But I do have a co-worker that tweeters a lot. So while I am in Disney (3/12-3/21) I will be tweetering what I am doing just to drive him crazy. So if anyone wants to follow along I am aledomom on Twitter.

 

[robertgp124]

Here's Jon Stewart's take on Twitter-

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/the_daily_shows_1.html

This was funny....

 

[DWFan4Life]

A tweet is a twitter post or status update. If one of the people I follow tweet something which I find interesting and pass along to those following me, it is a re-tweet.

Yes, exactly. It's a service of friends to get connected and communicate.

 

[scrappinmom]

So is it different than facebook? same concept? I'm gonna try to go over & take a look today, after I get the kiddos off to school

 

[FireDancer]

So is it different than facebook? same concept? I'm gonna try to go over & take a look today, after I get the kiddos off to school

It is not the same as Facebook. Facebook is more of a social networking site while Twitter is is a micro-blogging service. For lack of a better explanation it acts like a big RSS agrigator. They are complimentary services instead of alternative services.

With twitter, you set up a user and people who want to follow you do so. You also chose to follow whom ever you would like. When you send a tweet, those that follow you get the tweet. When those your follow tweet, you get their tweet.

You can also use hashtags to follow subjects instead of users.

A tweet is limited to 140 characters which is where the micro comes in.

The best corolation with facebook is with the status updates. Imagine everytime you made a status update it was sent via RSS to all of you facebook friends RSS readers (ok, technically it would be sent via SMS and recived by them via RSS).