Perhaps everyone has heard about "Twitter". What it is? Answer in the article

"Twitter" - what is it? In the West, the triumphant march of this social service began long ago - in 2006. In Russia, he became known much later. But there are still people who know little about him, although they heard something somewhere. That's the question for them "Twitter - what is it?" Is just relevant.

"Twitter" is a service of microblogging, short messages that allow users to follow what is happening right now in the life of their friends or acquaintances. The peculiarity of it - the publicity of all messages, which allows anyone registered in the service to be aware of the events of the life of famous bloggers. This makes the idea of using such a social server especially attractive. Readers in "Twitter", thus, the first can read the impressions, for example, the Russian prime minister from attending an event.

Who has his "Twitter"?

By the way, many famous actors, performers and politicians have official "Twitter": Madonna, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov, Tina Kandelaki and many others. There was information that in 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin will also lead an official account in this system, but it has not been confirmed.

A bit of history

Like all ingenious, the idea of creating "Twitter" is simple and even somehow boring. The principle was voiced during dinner by several friends, engineers of the Odeo campaign. One of the future creators of "Twitter" then shared with his friends the idea to equip a service that allows them to communicate through the phone with the help of short text messages. At that time, the company had to change its direction of activity because of the growing competition, and the company's engineers were in the "brainstorming" stage. The company appreciated the idea, and began to implement it. The first message in the service appeared in the spring of 2006, when the founder of the program announced that he was setting up his Twitter account. At first, users of the new form of communication were few, mostly they were employees of Odeo and their friends. Rapidly gaining popularity service began after the film festival in 2007, at which the company's engineers on the pre-installed screens broadcast live messages of service users. "Twitter" - what is it? "- this question then interested many of those present at the festival.To that day the audience of the new social network began to grow rapidly.

Who needs "Twitter"

"Twitter" is primarily interesting to those who like convenience, mobility, speed in sending messages. It is also interesting for those who prefer to keep abreast of all the news of politics and show business, who like some kind of involvement with other users when communicating in Twitter.

The very interface of the server is extremely simple and understandable. A very easy way to register in "Twitter" allows you to literally become one of its users within a couple of minutes. After registering, a new member of the service gets full access to all of its resources.

Last year, services of the microblogging service "Twitter" were used by 200 million users in the world. Every day they post over 300 million messages on the site. Impressive scale! But to finally understand: "Twitter" - what it is, it is worth it to become its user.