Tweet It Twitter Projects for the Real World Carolyn Bernhardt
What Is Twitter You're at a family dinner when your dad tells a funny joke Everyone is laughing and having a blast Your brother decides to share the joke with his friends He logs in to Twitter and writes a tweet about the joke Instantly your brother's Twitter followers are in on the joke Many retweet it to their followers Soon your dad's silly joke is being spread around the Internet This is the power of Twitter Twitter is a content sharing website and app Users post status updates of 140 characters or less These posts are called tweets and are meant to be short Some social media users find longer posts on other sites to be overwhelming Twitter users share brief bits of information quickly They can also include photos videos and article links in their tweets
The Twitter community connects by following one another If a Twitter user follows another user he or she will see that person's posts in his or her feed Users tag each other in tweets and comment on posts They also retweet or share one another's content This is how tweets can go viral Some tweets are shared around the world by billions of people in just minutes
