[Toups]

I've never really understood or even tried to understand twitter honestly.. never even visited it haha. Someone care to explain its basics to me?

[sbfc]

Originally Posted by crumblepie

I think Twitter owes its popularity to celebs like Ashton Kutcher and Larry King. They keep mentioning Twitter on CNN - it's like non-stop advertising!

PS- does CNN own Twitter?

Yeah I agree with you. Twitter is popular IMO because of the amount of celebrities that are regular users on it.

As for Twitter being owned by CNN, I don't think it is.

[Jamie]

No twitter is not owned by CNN, it was made by people like us, just people looking to make a site on the internet, and doing what they can to get it big. They struck lucky IMO, their no different from us.

Their no different from any other social networking network that ISNT big, you can tell their lack of experience because they couldnt even defend a simple DDoS attack from some hackers. Now i believe the ONLY way they got back up and running after that attack was due to the amount of money they had made from that site, and they must have hired someone who was good with security, otherwise they would have been ruined from there on im quite sute.

[crumblepie]

They're so lucky! It's every webmasters dream to make it big, and I guess Twitter is as big as one can get

Part of their success is also because of the freedom they give to webmasters to create Twitter-related sites. Try doing that with facebook, and you'll immediately be getting some trademark infringement e-mail telling you to let the domain expire or they'll take legal action against you (happened to me).

[BlueEew]

I haven't created a Twitter account yet. However I recently read that using Twitter is great for getting Traffic and Members on forums. By getting people who like your websites nich to follow you.

[bizexpert]

I am following this person. Do I put quotation marks "@username" or do I just send the tweet without quotation marks

[Jamie]

Just out of interest, what domain did you register that they complained about crumble?

[crumblepie]

Originally Posted by bizexpert

I am following this person. Do I put quotation marks "@username" or do I just send the tweet without quotation marks

You send it without the quotation marks

Originally Posted by Jamie

Just out of interest, what domain did you register that they complained about crumble?

It was add(trademarkgoeshere).com - I hadn't even parked it, it was just left untouched..

[sbfc]

Has anyone here actually ever got a client/customer or a member to a forum through Twitter, or seen a significant increase in visits after advertising on Twitter? I haven't personally :P

[crumblepie]

I haven't either.