If you wonder why you should use Twitter, this Twitter for Beginners would just be the right reading for you. You may have thought that Twitter is just for meaningless blabber and for people with nothing good to with do their own time. You could be no farther from the truth.

I will enlighten you on how Twitter can do a lot more for you. Think of it as a quick way of sharing bits of your life in just words and a click on the update button every time you tweet. Well, you might be thinking, “Why should I use Twitter? I’m not an attention-seeker”, “What is it that makes Twitter really appealing?” So just read on, and I might be able to answer these questions for you.

It is amazing how Twitter simply makes you answer the question, “What’s happening?”, and with that simple question, you get an infinite number of responses in just a few moments’ time. Let us take note that Twitter has a 140 character limit enough for the little you have to say. It is not like most blogging sites that have much higher character limits or maybe even no character limits at all. Twitter was made to be SMS-friendly and is the reason for this unique blogging character limit.

If for example, you need answers or help for certain things, then ask questions or help from your followers through tweeting, and I bet that after a few minutes, more people than you expect would have replied to your tweet. With Twitter, you get instant support and news, feedback, and solutions quicker than you could have hoped for. If you are following news channels or important people, then you would get news faster on Twitter than you would anywhere else.

There are so many things you can do on Twitter that you probably have not thought of doing yet. You can find jobs, do some marketing or advertising, and other things that your creative mind can think of doing. You could think of it as a large forum for a group or groups of people with similar interests carrying on conversations about things they could relate with. With this, you create connections and get to know more people. And, along the way, you learn so much. You might choose to engage in new activities because of the suggestions of those who you follow, or maybe, get some tips on doing more than what you can with what you already know. You get ideas on all types of things!

Why the 140-character limit?

From the Twitter Blog: “The Twitter message limit of 140 characters was based on the limit of 160 characters imposed by SMS in general—we just needed some room to include your name in front of the message. It’s this simple constraint that allows Twitter to work well in so many places.”

Twitter has built its reputation on this popular 140 character limit. What would be the use of making it longer now? Honestly, do you need to say that much? I mean, it could take some kind of ‘special’ way of expressing oneself to be able to say what you want with this kind of limit, but it is quite simple when you get used to it. Besides, the simpler and the more valuable the content of your tweets are, the more it would attract people. This Twitter for Beginners article is intended to have enlighten you and I hope that it somehow has.

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