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Twitter

Focus: a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

Registered Users: $100.0 Million +

Features:

• Twitter allows you to send and read other users updates (known as tweets)
• More of a public platform than Facebook
• Twitter messages (tweets) are limited to 140 characters (microblogging)
• You can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS(text messages), RSS (receive only), emails or a third party application.
• You can restrict delivery to your circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default).
• You can search for people by name or user name, import friends from other networks, or invite friends via email.
• Businesses can run promotions to gain more followers.