Twitter

Card's author : Outils Réseaux
Card's type of licence : Creative Commons BY-SA
To begin with : Twitter is the chirps of birds, that's why the log is a little blue bird. Created in 2006; Twitter is a microblogging plateform: the equivalent of an SMS but on the internet. Tweets of 140 characters maximum can be sent and received.
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Official website : http://twitter.com/
Tool's boxes : Blogs
Introduction :
Requirements : Opening a Twitter account
Some practical uses :
  • Communicating about a network's activities.
  • Web watching with Twitter

Using the tools :
Going further : Testing space : twitter.com

Documentation :
Advantages :
  • A very quick and exponential propagation effect. With the system "follower/following" : creation of a much more flexible social network than with Facebook.
Drawbacks :
  • Only 140 characters : no way to be profound.
  • Written form and specific codes that can put off beginners : Twitter is more confidential than Facebook
Licence : Proprietary software, Free
Using : Easy
Setting up : No setting up