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**Twitter** is an online privately held social networking and micro blogging service. It’s enjoyed by everyone round the world and the Language can be changed to English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, whatever language preference the user requires.

=__**// Background: (Refer to Twitter) //**__= As social networking becomes more popular so does ** Twitter. ** They recorded 100 million active users in September 2011. 40% of these post tweet updates. And the remainder just follow others. It’s differentiation from other social networking services is its simplicity of its features i.e. ‘Tweeting’ and ‘Following’. media type="youtube" key="NshQFrpC2O4" width="424" height="350" align="center"
 * Twitter ** was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Noah Glass, and Evan Williams.
 * Twitter’s ** HQ is located in San Francsico, California.
 * 1) ‘Tweeting’ a term used specifically for Twitter on sending and receiving messages.
 * 2) ‘Following’ a term used when subscribing to someone tweets so that their updates appear on your timeline and it allows that person to send you private tweets (direct messages).

= __//** Users of Twitter: **//__ = ** Twitters ** users is made up of all kinds of people from the general public to celebrities. Many businesses look to **Twitter** as a form of advertising:
 * Samsung Notebook media type="youtube" key="4AN4_N5N52U" width="425" height="350" align="right"
 * PlayStation
 * Thomas cook UK
 * Marks & Spencer

= = = = =__//**Other services provided by Twitter :**//__=
 * Twitter on the go applications for mobile users - Sign up
 * Twitter for SMS - sign up via mobile - Help
 * Twitter for business - sign up

** Twitter's ** mobile micro-blogging service has played a major role in communication. And undoubtedly it is used as a way to express oneself and unite people round the world. On Remembrance day (11th November 2011) **Twitter** recorded everyones 'tweets' mentioning 11:11. This clip below is a visualisation of these 'tweets', which are represented with "1", Their size varies depending on the volume of Tweets in that area. media type="youtube" key="Xv1GMoNOoys" width="425" height="350"