With the humongous amount of buzz surrounding Twitter, many people aspire to get involved in the bandwagon themselves. There are a lot of people who are unaware of how Twitter actually functions. All of us very well known that it is a website and the element which actually sets it apart from the other plethora of networking sites on the web is the fact that your followers can receive short messages from you as and when you post them. Followers in terms of Twitter mean those people who have added your profile in a list so that they can get your messages immediately as you post them. Similarly, you can also add your friends and acquaintances in the list and receive their messages in a similar manner.

Tweets
Tweets have become synonymous with the emergence of Twitter. On this networking website, you can post a message within the range of one hundred and forty words and these messages are known as tweets. Twitter is considered a great amalgamation of blogs and instant messages. Due to word limitation for every single message, the posts are quite easy to read, and it does not consume much f your time. So for people who are too busy to have their own blog or to follow someone else's blog, for that matter, Twitter can be considered as an ideal platform to keep in touch with friends and even your business associates.

Getting started
Twitter is completely free of cost hence you do not need to pay any kind of fee to set up your profile. Once your profile is created then you can straightway start following your friends and your favorite celebrities. Tweets can be sent to anybody regardless of the fact that whether you are following them or not. To you makes changes to the background of your home page by choosing the settings option and select backgrounds that are provided by the site, or you can have your customized version.

Sending invitations
In order to send an invitation to your friends to let them know about your presence on Twitter, you can use the email option that is present in the site. Twitter has set up this option so that you can directly send mail to your existing friend list. In this manner, you start to create your own base of followers. So when you start posting your tweets then your friends will immediately receive the tweets and people who visit your profile would be able to view them.

Receiving tweets
One of the best features of Twitter is that you can update as well as receive tweets without being tied down to the usual internet enabled computer. One can receive tweets by linking their phones with the site, and then they will automatically start receiving the tweets in the form of sms.

Twitter can be a new arena for a lot of people but after the initial phase of learning about its application and usage, it can turn out to be a lot of fun.

Article by Brian Brown