What is Twitter?

Twitter definition: Twitter is a social media platform launched in 2006; users can communicate through short-form messages known as Tweets.

Twitter only allows users to share content up to 280 characters to their followers. But other forms of rich media like videos and images can be attached.

One of Twitter’s stand out features is its faced-paced news feed; users can quickly and easily share updates and communicate with the people they follow, and who follow them.

This has lead to an increase in popularity in sharing:

• News content
• Microblogs

So much so that Twitter has started to classify itself as a news platform more than a social media one.

Twitter has around 321 million active users.

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Concept related to Twitter

• Retweet
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Additional resources about Twitter

• 25 Ways to Use Twitter for Marketing
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• How to Use Twitter for Business and Marketing