4. Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows you to answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called “tweets,” to your friends, or “followers.” http://tweeternet.com/
9. @ You can use @ in a tweet to mention someone, ask them a question, or point them in the direction of a cool website. Using the @ symbol is also a great way to reply to tweets by other people.
11. Hashtags, or “#” symbols, are used in tweets to mark keywords or topics, thus making them more accessible in the Twitter Search bar at the top of your home page.
17. And your followers see your tweets too! You can follow people or organizations of interest to you in order to see their tweets and stay in the loop.
21. You can favorite a tweet that you like in order to save it for later. Once you favorite it, a yellow star will appear both in the upper left-hand corner of the tweet, as well as at the bottom. You can always unfavoritea tweet as well.
28. The organizers of the most recent WiserJakarta event made use of Twitter both to effectively advertise prior to the event, and to disseminate information, pictures, and blog entries after the event had taken place.
