Twitter

In the world of relationships and everywhere else, people are talking more about Twitter, social networking site, since it's about to become a public company. Twitter makes money from advertising. Still, it isn't selling enough ads to make a profit.

However, Twitter's monthly users expanded to 232 million in the third quarter, according to the company.

The social networking site is used by people from every walk of life, organizations and celebrities.

You, too, can sign up for a Twitter account. pick a name, user-name, and password. Find Twitter by typing Twitter dot com into a search engine.

Some people use their name, and others prefer a name that holds meaning for them.

Add a pic, picture, to your profile. The pic is a image that you like, not necessarily a pic of yourself.

Fill in your bio. The bio information gives people an idea of who you are, and a clue to the topics you'll tweet about. Provide a link to your Web site, if you have one.

Gather-up people to follow. Tell friends/relatives about your Twitter account. The social networking site will help/suggest people to follow.

Twitter messages written by people, accounts, you follow appears in your feed/time-line. A time-line should show-case interesting tid-bits, deliver useful information and/or entertain.

You have the option to unfollow a person or an account. Click on unfollow at any time.

Communicate with a tweet by typing on reply.

Some tweets you'll like and want to share. It's done through retweeting, or RT.

Hashtags (#) are used too. Hashtags help people search for subject, and find tweets about it.

An at (@) symbol gives the person you're addressing and those following both of you opportunity to see your tweet.

A character or word is typed before the @ sign to allow the tweet to be seen.

Now, it's time to tweet. Remember, Twitter permits 40 characters per tweet.