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Follow companies and other people you are interested in. &nbsp;(Not the &quot;breakfast in Paris people...) Sometimes a business will offer a discount or contest entry exclusively to their twitter followers.
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Follow companies and other people you are interested in.  (Not the "breakfast in Paris people...) Sometimes a business will offer a discount or contest entry exclusively to their twitter followers.

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Hello,<br />
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I'm not a twitter user, although I have an account. I don't see how twitter can be useful.<br />
By instance, I don't see any use of reading a twit of someone saying: &quot;Having breakfast at Paris&quot;.<br />
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Maybe someone could show me if I'm wrong?
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Hello,

I'm not a twitter user, although I have an account. I don't see how twitter can be useful.
By instance, I don't see any use of reading a twit of someone saying: "Having breakfast at Paris".

Maybe someone could show me if I'm wrong?

How's twitter useful?

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Users can group posts together by topic or type by use of hashtags – words or phrases prefixed with a "#" sign. Similarly, the "@" sign followed by a username is used for mentioning or replying to other users. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. The Twitter Web interface uses the Ruby on Rails framework. The service's application programming interface (API) allows other web services and applications to integrate with Twitter.