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This post was made by fellow blogger Dot Com Dud, you can check out his Twitter profile @dotcomdud.

While you’ve no doubt heard of blogging platforms such as Wordpress, you may not know about Twitter which is a little different because it’s a micro-blogging platform. What is micro-blogging exactly? The best way to answer this is to learn how Twitter works. By allowing it’s users to blog messages no longer than 140 characters, Twitter users can provide as many of these updates, or “tweets” as they are commonly known, to be read by anyone who follows them. You can choose whose tweets you want to follow and others will choose to follow your tweets too, especially if you keep your updates interesting.

While tweets were intended to answer the question “What are you doing?”, tweets have since extended beyond that and now provide much more information. This means that Twitter also branches out beyond simple micro-blogging by becoming a social networking and bookmarking service. Users regularly share links to their latest blog posts, top news headlines, funny pictures and a whole lot more. Luckily this does not mean Twitter is complicated because all these features are just a part of the simple 140 character tweets being made.

Twitter is a service that will appeal to a broad audience because at it’s core it is a communication platform. It is an essential tool for bloggers, who will love sharing their ideas and reading the latest posts of other. Others users will include marketers for it’s ability network with other users on a large scale, news junkies will read the latest headlines on Twitter before they’ll see it anywhere else and your family and friends will love being able to see what interesting things you are doing and vice versa.

Twitter is easy to use and getting started with the service is simple. There is a lot of information going around on Twitter but keeping up is fairly easy with the Twitter interface and there are newplug-ins and features being added every day. Not everyone wants to be a blogger, so Twitter helps fill the gap between chatting and full-blown blogging nicely. If you haven’t tried Twitter yet, then what are you waiting for??

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