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Twittering or tweeting is something which we find everyone active, so much so that the celeb world has also taken into the same. Whether your motive is to make friends or get connected with some like minded individuals over the internet, Twitter is the ideal platform for the same. Few even opt for the same for promoting one’s business via the website and yet others are there to keep logged into to be aware of the trends and latest news. With the awesome interactive tool, one can easily make several friends from various corners of the world.

Getting started with twitter is also easy and can be done effortlessly. All you need to do is to type in the web address of twitter in your browser and the home page of twitter would appear. There is also a video which has been uploaded for helping the new users to be familiar with the ways of using twitter. You can go through that in case you are confused on how to go about the same. In the home page you would find the get started – join tab. Click on the same and get started with tweeting.

A whole new world opens before you once you are a member of twitter. You would gradually find that this application of twitter is a remarkable one having various kinds of applications present within it which can be used for talking with your friends, for conducting businesses, or even for promoting any of your blogs or your company website. Whatever update you give at twitter is known as a tweet. While you update something, or post a new status or news, it should not be more than 140 characters.

A general tweet can be send by you to anyone, reply to the tweet you have received or you can even send a tweet directed to just one specific person. This and many other applications are present in this awesome social networking platform. While you are in this platform, you may find various new terms which might seem new to you, but believe me it’s quite simple a task once you become a regular visitor of twitter.

Now other than this tweet, you also get to see retweet. This is when you pick up some twitter message which has already been posted by someone else and then rebroadcast the same to all the followers you have in your list. While you broadcast this message, it is essential that you give the due credit to the original poster of the tweet. This retweeting can obviously benefit the original poster, but it also has benefits involved for the ‘retweeted’ individual as well.

Looking into the social networking sites, it has been seen that the prominent ones like Facebook require the individuals to have reciprocal relationships in Twitter you would get to find relationships which can be one way linked as well. When you find any individual in twitter whom you like or is captivating to you or their interests, also interests also interests you, then you too can follow them. By doing this, you can subscribe to the tweets which they would post. Which implies that whatever posts they make, you would get an intimation for the same. When you follow any one on twitter then they do not have to follow you necessarily, instead they may do so only if they like or want to do the same.

Favorites are basically a kind of public tweets which are seen at twitter and are somewhat like retweets on this grounds but these can be used as bags or also as a bookmarking tool where the tweets are kept stored. Twitter favorites are one of the easiest ways for bookmarking any kind of tweet which you have liked or loved.

The users of twitter generally tend to keep updating their timelines and as these time line can only exhibit few limited messages, hence you might need to mark few important messages which you find important, emotional or having some sentimental value. The function of ‘favorites’ found in twitter serves this need of ours. Few smart phone shave a tab for the same for meeting this function of favorites.

For viewing all your favorites, all you need is to click on the link which is seen at your sidebar once you have logged into twitter.

All that you need to do to deem a post as a favorite is to click on the tab beside the tweet which you liked and the star would appear besides the post showing that it is one of your favorites.

For all those who are not much familiar with the twitter terminology, they might get confused on day when by seeing so many varied kinds of terms like tweets, retweets, replies, hashtags, mentions, etc.