Social networking websites have acquired a great influence on people’s lives. These websites help people interact with family members and friends who are residing in far off places, and even with their next door buddies. Online socializing is fun and notably inexpensive. People are only charged for their usual internet connection, which is nothing in comparison to the expanses of phone calls, postal mails, and airplane tickets. Orkut.com and Facebook.com were thought to be the leaders of internet social networking, unless Twitter.com entered the race and alarmingly, began attaining a lot of attention from social networking freaks.

Twitter.com is a social interaction portal that allows people to join it free of cost, and interact with their friends and family online. People stay connected to their circle by answering a simple and easy question, “What Are You Doing?” This question can get so many diversified answers that one will be astonished to witness the variety. Users get to know about whatever their buddies are doing when the status is updated. This is a uniquely different idea behind this simple yet interesting website.

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Twitter – The name suggests the functionality of this website well. It is a social networking website with that extra edge to it that is fast growing due to its excessive popularity. It is a free micro blogging website. The little birdie on the website is cute and the site design is simple with a login form to the right and a signup statement which is very suggestive. You are asked what you are doing and that’s the concern of the innumerable friends and family you get to meet on Twitter.com

Functionality

You can make your tweets, that is whatever you want to say to your friends, public or private. The users can make comments. The short updates are posted in the form of “tweets” and they can also upload the videos through features called Twideo.

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