Twitter: What The Heck Is It?

Social media is taking over. Facebook. MySpace. Digg. Stumble. And Twitter? What the heck is Twitter?

There is a good chance, since there are 100 million ACTIVE users, that you are using Facebook. So what the heck is Twitter, you ask again.

Twitter is a status update, kind of like the "what are you doing know" bar on FaceBook. Twitter is a community of people where you can share what you're doing now with all of your friends, called "Followers".

Unlike Facebook, you can have unlimited numbers of people following you. Every time you give an update, all of you followers will see what you're up to. Then they can comment directly to you, or they can comment indirectly to the masses.

It's a great tool to see what's up. And you can search Twitter to find information that interests you. For instance, in the search area, type in a topic you're looking for. Let's say, "dating advice". It will pull up every "tweet" where someone has used the term "dating advice".

Using this feature, you can:
1. Find new people to follow because they share common interests
2. Read their "tweet". It's usually a short message that will often direct you to a blog or article about what you're looking for.

Once you read their "tweet", you click the link they offer and read the message, which goes into more detail about the topic.

You can also just send a "tweet" to your friends to let them know you are going out to your favorite spot, or whatever. I'm telling you, it's great.

Get to know Twitter. Everyone is doing it. And the best part.....It's FREE!

Yeah. That's right. It costs you absolutely nothing to stay connected, let everyone know what you're doing know, and sift through information to quickly find exactly what you're looking for.

So go to Twitter. Register an account (FREE). And start searching and following people that interest you. Soon, you'll have a whole list of people following you wondering what you are doing now!

Be the popular person on the internet. Join now and tell your friends about it.

PS: You can get it to link directly with your Facebook profile, so every time you type in Twitter, it automatically updates in your Facebook profile! Awesome!