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I have been hearing people talking about and using Twitter nowadays. It seems like many people are twittering online. The next thing that you will hear from people who use Twitter is to ask you to follow them on Twitter. 

So, what is Twitter all about? The simplest answer that I got is that Twitter is a micro-Blog. The detailed explanation of what Twitter is can be found in Wikipedia as follows :

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them

A typical question that the Twitter service will ask its users is as follows :

What are you doing?

All you need to do is to type in your answer to this simple question.

Well, you can watch a video clip which explains what Twitter is all about in plain English to get an idea :