Features of Twitter

Tweets are publicly visible by default; however, senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external applications such as for smartphones, or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. Users may subscribe to other users tweets, this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers or tweeps (Twitter + peeps). The users can also check the people who are un-subscribing them on Twitter better known as unfollowing via various services.

In June 2008, Twitter launched a verification program which allowing celebrities to get their accounts verified. Originally intended to help users verify which celebrity accounts were created by the celebrities themselves and therefore are not fake, they have since been used to verify accounts of businesses and accounts for public figures who may not actually tweet but still wish to maintain control over the account that bears their name - for example, the Dalai Lama. Verified accounts can be identified by a white check in a blue background, known as a verification badge, next to the user's full name, on the profile itself or next to the name in search results.

Messages

Users can group posts together by topic or type by use of hashtags – words or phrases prefixed with a "#" sign. Similarly, the "@" sign followed by a username is used for mentioning or replying to other users. To repost a message from another Twitter user, and share it with one's own followers, the retweet function is symbolized by "RT" in the message. In late 2009, the "Twitter Lists" feature was added, making it possible for users to follow as well as mention and reply to ad-hoc lists of authors instead of individual authors.

^{The messages were initially set to 140-character limit for compatibility with SMS messaging, introducing the shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages. The 140-character limit has also increased the usage of URL shortening services such as bit.ly, goo.gl, and tr.im, and content-hosting services, such as Twitpic, memozu.com and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters. Twitter uses its own t.co domain for automatic shortening of all URLs posted on its website.}

Tweet Contents

San Antonio based market-research firm Pear Analytics analyzed 2,000 tweets and separated them into six categories:

Content of Tweets according to Pear Analytics 

  News - 4%

  Spam - 4%

  Self-promotion - 6%

  Pointless babble - 40%

  Conversational - 38%

  Pass-along value - 9%


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Introduction to Tweeting

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as tweets. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity with over 300 million users as of 2011, generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It has been described as the SMS of the Internet. Jack Dorsey was born on November 19, 1976. He is an American software architect and businessman widely known as the creator of Twitter and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

JACK DORSEY

EVAN WILLIAMS

BIZ STONE

When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey had wondered if the software's user status output could be shared among friends easily. He approached Odeo, who at the time happened to be interested in text messaging. Dorsey and Biz Stone decided that SMS text suited the status message idea, and built a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks. The idea attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams who had left Google after selling them Pyra Labs and Blogger. Dorsey, Stone, and Williams co-founded Obvious which then spun off Twitter, Inc. As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who backed the company. On October 16 2008, Williams took over the role of CEO and Dorsey became chairman of the board. On March 28 2011, Dorsey returned to Twitter as Executive Chairman. As the service grew in popularity, Dorsey chose improving uptime as top priority, even over creating revenue which Twitter was not designed to earn. Dorsey described the commercial use of Twitter and its API as two things that could lead to paid features. His three guiding principles which are shared by the whole company and through its culture, are simplicity, constraint and craftsmanship.

EVAN WILLIAMS - BIZ STONE - JACK DORSEY

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey

How to Create a Blog

Before creating a Blog, we must have E-Mail address first. Without E-Mail we will not be able to create a Blog. The steps below will explain more about the making of blog:

1. Click the arrows that reads "Create Your Blog Now".
2. Fill in your Email address with your Email address.
3. Fill in the form, enter A password in the Password.
4. The contents of the Password retype the Password's review on.
5. The contents of the display name with the name you want to display.
6. Write text in the form of word Verification. 
7. Click the checkbox on the edge of My writings and accept the terms of service.
8. Click an arrow image that says "Continue".

1. Write a Blog title that you want.
2. Write the name of your site in the form of Blog Address (URL).
3. Write verification text displayed on the form the form Verification.
4. Click continue to continue.

Select the Template you want,

Templates are designs a web page or blog and all of its components (for example: images, stylesheets, etc) as well as static files or dynamic file in the form of a program or application that runs as a web application.

Steps in choosing a good template:

1. Click The Templates.
2. Click "Pick New Template" select the template you want.
3. Click "Preview Template ' to see the layouts provided.
4. Click Save to save your Template.

Click Continue to continue and it will appear the words "Your blog has been created". 

Click arrow to "Start Posting" (write the text as desired) and click the button "Publish" to finish.

Source: http://howtomakeablogpopular.blogspot.com/2007/03/step-by-step-process-to-create-blog-in.html

Blogger

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. 

HISTORY

On August 23 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features for which Pyra had charged to become free. In October 2004, Pyra Labs co-founder, Evan Williams left Google. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa so it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.

On May 9 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed "Invader" alongside the gold release. Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including interface language in French, Italian, German and Spanish. Furthermore, blogs are updated with label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.

In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth anniversary celebration. The features included a new interface for post editing, improved image handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:

• Adding location to posts via geotagging.
• Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
• Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
• Link editing in Compose mode.
• Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and Mac OS.
• New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
• Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in Compose mode.
• New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.

In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.

LIMITATION

Blogger has the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth, per user account:

• Number of blogs = Unlimited
• Size of pages = Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB
• Number of labels = 2,000 unique labels per blog, 20 unique labels per post
• Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Picasa Web Album) = Up to 1 GB of free storage
• Size of pictures = If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 250 KB per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 800px
• Team members (those that can write to a blog) = 100
• Stand-Alone Page = Limited to 20 stand-alone page

On February 18, 2010, Blogger introduced "auto-pagination", which limited the number of posts that could be displayed on each page, often causing the number of posts on the main page to be less than that specified by the user and leading to a hostile response from some users.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

Introduction to Blogging

Blog is an abbreviated version of weblog, the term was first used by Jorn Barger in December 1997. He uses the term to refer to the Group Weblog personal website whose always updated continuously and contains links to other websites they deem interesting accompanied with comments of their own. Jorn Barger was born in 1953. He is an American blogger, best known as editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog. Barger coined the term weblog to describe the process of "logging the web" as he surfed. 

In other words, a Weblog can be interpreted as a collection of personal websites that allow the original poster showing the different types of content on the web with ease, such as papers, a collection of internet links, documents, images or multimedia. Along with the development of the weblog from time to time, understanding weblogs will evolve along with your ideas and wishes for the bloggers. Bloggers are the makers of the Blog. Through blogs created by blogger, blogger's personality becomes more recognizable based on what topics, what is the response to the links on select inside. Therefore, the Blog is very personal.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger