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biped wrote:
I'm on Facebook. What's the difference?
Twitter is a conversation the world is having with itself realtime. It's the CB radio of the Internet.
Everyone can send out messages of 140 characters. All the messages you send out are your Twitter feed.
You can choose to follow other people's feed. Every time they tweet, you will be able to read it on your updating screen. The people you follow over time becomes your Twitter stream, and you can shape it to your own purposes by unfollowing loudmouths and following more cogent commenters (or vice versa if that's what dresses up your furry). Other people can do this with your feed as well.
You can search for keywords, usually preceded by a hashtag, i.e., #porn or #basketball or #MamaToldMeNotToCome. Special hashtags evolve for different subjects. For example, the recent Egyptian revolt was discussed with #jan25 and the Wisconsin union situation is #WIunion.
You can also choose to follow people, and every time they tweet, you can read it on your updating screen. The people you follow over time becomes your Twitter stream, and you can shape it to your own purposes by unfollowing loudmouths and following more cogent commenters (or vice versa if that's what dresses up your furry).
There are also comedy hashtags that pop up. A recent one was #JewishBondFilms, and my stellar contributions were The Schmendrick Who Loved Me and You Should Only Live Twice.
Famous people have Twitter accounts for self-promotion or just general hosing. Who would have thought Stephen Weber would spend hours every day making up the filthiest and most disgusting tweets about any subject available? Who would have thought Jake Tapper has a decent sense of humor? Who would have thought Cloris Leachman would embrace the hashtag #HOTMAWMAW as her own? Well, I would have thought that last one.
You can strike up conversations, pester assholes until they block you, make like comedy, yelp and howl and tweet and whatever. It's Twitter.