Twitter (http://www.twitter.com or http://www.accessibletwitter.com) is what is known as a "micro-blogging service". Basically, people sign up for it and then send short messages, no more than 140 characters, to their followers. A follower is simply a person who receives the tweets sent by the people they follow. Think of it as subscribing to a magazine: the followers are the subscribers, so only they will get a copy of each issue of a magazine, no one else. Any subscriber to the magazine can start their own magazine, and then, though they still receive magazines, they can start sending out new issues of a different magazine to their own subscribers.
A tweet is just one of these short messages. If you send a tweet you are said to "tweet", and are therefore a "twit" (no, I am completely serious). A retweet is just a tweet that you send with someone else's Twitter username at the beginning, like forwarding an email. Basically, the GWM promotion here is that you sign into your Twitter account and retweet the message Jeremy had in the email quoted below; that is, you write your own tweet, putting GWMicro at the start, since GWMicro is GWM's Twitter username. As long as you are following GWMicro (remember, that means you see any tweets they post), they will be notified that someone just retweeted them (again, a retweet is just a tweet with a particular person's username in it). They can then see exactly who retweeted the message and can compile a list of Twits' usernames from which to draw a winner. I hope that the above at least made some sense! On 3/8/10, Terri Pannett <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I'm Miss Ignoramus USA! > > What is Twitter, Tweet, and Retweet? I thought only bird tweeted and > twittered. > > Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
