10 Following Interesting People on Twitter

Screenshot of two tweets.

In this chapter, you learn how to find and follow others on Twitter.

➔ Signing Up and Signing On

➔ Navigating Twitter

➔ Finding Tweeters to Follow

➔ Viewing Your Twitter Feed

Twitter is different from Facebook in that it’s not a social network; it’s a microblogging service. That means it’s like Facebook but without the group social interaction. The focus is on relatively short (280-character) messages called tweets, which are shared with a user’s followers.

As such, Twitter is immensely popular with younger users, but less so among older users, who value the more social nature of Facebook and Pinterest. ...

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