What the hell is Twitter???

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send and read each other's updates, also known as Tweet. Tweet is text-based posts of up to 140 characters in the author's profile page and to other users - known as a promoter - that they have signed. Sender can supply to in their circle of friends or of open-access standard. Users can send and receive Tweet Tweet via website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free of charge via the Internet, but emerge with SMS, phone-service provider fees.

Since its founding in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has been notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes referred to as "SMS over the Internet [2], because it offers the functionality of its Application Programming Interface (API) for other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages that are often obscured by Twitter service itself .

Via SMS, the user with Twitter gateway through five figures: short codes for the USA, Canada, India, New Zealand, and Isle of Man-based data for international use. There is also a short code in the United Kingdom, which is only accessible in the Vodafone network. [3]

Estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company did not release the number of active accounts. In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimates that Twitter had 4-5 million users. [4] A February 2009 Compete.com Blog Twitter Rank as the third most widely used social networks, [5], thus increasing the number of unique visitors per month to around 6 million, and the number of monthly visits to 55 million [5], but only 40% of users are maintained. [6] In March 2009, a Nielsen.com Blog Twitter Rank as the fastest growing website in the Member States - Communities category for February 2009. Twitter a monthly supplement of 1382% Zimbio 240%, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228% [7].