Are you new to Twitter? Let us help you with the basics.

1. Basics

2. What is ? A free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read brief messages.

3. - Messages are known as “Tweets” - intended to answer the question “What are you doing?” - Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters long. - Users have a profile page where their Tweets are displayed. Basics

7. Additional Capabilities - Tweeters can upload images and videos to 3rd party websites and put a link in their status that directs followers to view the media.