What is twitter,anyways

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Twitter describes itself as, “a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”

If you’re new Twitter, then that description might seem a bit vague and ambiguous. So, to help you wrap your mind around the short-form messaging tool, start thinking about Twitter as a new form of online communication. Twitter is just communication in a new shape, but it’s also a platform for listening to the communication of others in new ways.Currently we have email, instant messenger, and VoIP tools like Skype as one-to-one or one-to-few online communication tools. For one-to-many online communication, online publishers can turn to blogs to create and distribute content rapidly and reach anyone on the web through RSS feeds.

Twitter is a combination of these various forms of communication, but its primary difference is that posts, or tweets, are restricted to 140 characters or less. As a Twitter user you can post updates, follow and view updates from other users (this is akin to subscribing to a blog’s RSS feed), and send a public reply or private direct message to connect with another Twitterer.

Though users can answer the prompt, “What are you doing?”, tweets have evolved to more than everyday experiences, and take the shape of shared links to interesting content on the web, conversations around hot topics (using hashtags), photos, videos, music, and, most importantly, real-time accounts from people who are in the midst of a newsworthy event, crisis, or natural disaster.

Use Google's Buzz Service Better Than Before- Tips

1.Use an @reply to send a post directly to someone's inbox. If you want to make sure one of your friends sees a certain Buzz post, you can direct it to their inbox with an @reply. Type the "@" symbol followed by the first few letters of their name, and select their email address from the list. Only you'll see their Gmail address — other people will just see their name.

2.You can use Keyboard Shortcuts as in GMail :)


3.You Dont want to follow comments,? Here is a way to ignore the comments.
Comments on your posts and comments after your comments send buzz directly to your inbox. If you don't want a lively conversation to keep appearing in your inbox as people reply to it, you can mute it. Click the arrow in the corner of a buzz post and select "Mute this post."


If you have keyboard shortcuts turned on, you can also mute buzz that appears in your inbox by hitting the "m" key while you're reading it.

---M.Senthil Kumar

WEB 2.0

In recent days people searches internet for even doing their simple

tasks to do it efficiently and do it with their satisfaction. for

example: a person may have travelling he use to search to find the

best route, and his boarding details.

WEB 2.0 browser has the capability of receiving a long question as

its input and analyses and sorts down the search. It learns what

kind of person you are. and you can ask questions like where can i

spend my holidays , it analyses from the previous request you

made.

In short characteristics of web 2.0 are:

• the capability of users to post comments so as others can view ex:

reply for a blog question

• web pages that links unknown users i.e, social networking sites like twitter, orkut.

• sites that helps to share user content like rapidshare,youtube,mediafire.

• recent techniques of getting updates: nowadays RSS(Really Simple Syndication ) helps to receive updates of a sites changes made when a internet connection is available.

• Providing access to internet not only through computer but also through many electronic gadgets like mobile, television etc