Twitter – A Contemporary Elucidation to Communication & Information Overload
Twitter is a Contemporary Elucidation to Communication & Information Overload. Twitters makes one stay always connected to friends and know what they are doing. Timely updates from our near and dear loved ones give us joy and happiness. So to stay in touch and keep connected with family, friends and colleagues, the service of Twitter is made use of via the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question like What are you doing? The settings and options in Twitter can also be changed so as to stop following the friends or setting to quite mode to avoid any interruption.History of Twitter:
In March 2006, Twitter service was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan
Williams. Twitter started as a research and development project in Odeo a San
Francisco podcasting company.
Twitter service swiftly gained reputation. In March 2007, Twitter won the 2007 South by
Southwest Web Award in the blog category. Twitter obtained Summize on July 15,2008 and
rolled it into website at the subdomain search.twitter.com. Twitter declared on its blog
on April 22, 2008 that for Japanese an adaptation of Twitter has been created since they
are prominent users of Twitter regardless of the user interface being completely in
English language.
From 2007 till 2008 the Twitter messages were handled by a pure-Ruby light-weight persistent
queue server called Starling. In 2008, Starling was replaced by Scarling, a light-weight
persistent queue server written in the Scala programming language, which has since been
renamed Kestrel. In late April 2008, TechCrunch reported that, due to downtime related to
scaling problems, Twitter would abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from
scratch with PHP or Java. This report was exposed in a Tweet on May 1, 2008 by Evan Williams.
Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4-5 million users in November
2008. Twitter has been postioned as the third largest social networking service after
Facebook and MySpace via February 2009 Compete.Com blog entry.
Working of Twitter:
Twitter provides social networking and micro-blogging service allowing the users to send and receive other users' updates. These updates from other users are known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts limited to 140 characters in length. The user's profile page displays the updated received and delivered to other member users who have opted to receive them. Senders can also set his options as to limit delivery to members in the friend list. Users receive updates through Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or through services like TwitterMobile, Tweetie, Twinkle, Twitterrific, Feedalizr, Facebook, and Twidget.Twitter messages are be tagged with hashtags, a word or phrase prefixed with a # hash. Tagging of tweets by the user enables tweets on a particular subject to be searched for their common hashtag.
Users post text updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, Twitter’s website and third party applications as allowed by Twitter service. Users create their profile pages that display latest updates therein. Also users become “friends” or “followers” with one another. Apart from visiting another person’s profile page, a user can also receive updates from friends or followers through text messages, RSS or third party applications.
Twitter is a free service; still users may have to pay for text message charges to the phone carriers.
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