
Just like any other social networking platform twitter helps it’s users to stay connected with the world virtually. Gradually Twitter has created its own set of vocabulary and terminology behind all the activities being done within the application.
How does Twitter Work?
Now, let’s look at how does Twitter work. Some of the widely used lingoes of Twitter are mentioned below.
Tweet
Twitter can be accessed from web and mobile device, through which user can post a short message, update or information that can be of 140 characters. Recently the character limit of tweets has been doubled and got increased by 280 characters per tweet. Any tweet can include an image, video or link.
Follow
Twitter allows it’s users to choose who they would like to follow, that way user can have a total control over their home page and feeds being displayed within the same. If any twitter account is being set as Private then the user will have control over who can follow them, basically, the user will have a hold and need to approve every new follower as per their choice.
Tweets will get displayed on the homepage of all the followers as well as in users own home page. Each tweet will contain replies, any follower of a user will have rights to reply upon tweet posted by the user whom they follow. That way Twitter basically provides one too many communication facilities to users, unlike traditional emailing, and one to one chat.
Direct Messages
Two users who follow each other will be able to send a direct message it will be private and will not get displayed in a home page of any of the user.
Re-Tweeting
Re-tweeting is used to share an interesting tweet with other users. It will make that particular content being displayed on your home page and even those user will be able to see and read this content who are not following the user who has initiated the tweet.