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What is Twitter ? How to Learn English on Twitter ? 10 Advantages of Twitter

What is Twitter? How to lean English on Twitter and write it’s advantages ?
Twitter
Twitter is an online social net working and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read ‘tweets’ which are text messages limited to 140 characters.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July2006 the site was launched. The service rapidly gained world wide popularity, with more than 500 million registered users who posted 340 million tweets per day Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only Twitter is now one of the ten most visited websites, and has been described as the SMS of the Internet.
As a social network, Twitter revolves around the principle of “followers”. When you choose to follow another twitter user, that users tweets appear in reverse chronological order on your main twitter page. If you follow 20 people, you see a mix of tweets scrolling down the page interesting new links, music recommendations even musings on the future education.
How to learn English on Twitter?
Twitter is a tool the user can use to send messages of up 140 characters to a group of followers to
is a while she he also follow others. This  great tool that works with any device that the user can use to connect to the internet. The messages are short and easy to read. It is the perfect plat form to practice English structure, idioms and phrases. The process is as follows.
  • 1. Any person (or you) can sign up for a free twitter account.
  • 2. Once you have signed up, log in to your account, you can add a back  ground, a picture of yourself and a short biography if you want.
  • 3. Navigate to the English feel twitter page and click on which you will see on the left side of “Follow” the page.
  • 4. Begin receiving the updates on what we are working on that day, respond by writing an example using the grammar, idiom or structure of the day. You can participate as much as you want.
For example: You can sign up to only follow English feed at the twitter which means you’ll get only what the other user post to the service.
You will get a notification of the grammar, idiom or structure of he day, some examples and perhaps a few really good examples that the other user choose during the day. These will arrive as they are added to the service, so you’ll be getting short 30 second English practice sessions throughout the day. If you want to see more, you can go to the English feed twitter page to see the replies coming in.
Twitter helps the users to lean new vocabulary and practice writing through participation. It won’t take much time because one has to use only 140 characters to practice with. The user will get up dates during the day if he follows people with other examples he can lean from. All the updates can be send at http://twitter.com/englishfeed The user can also use his / her cell phone, iPhone or other internet accessing device to participate. Thus we will be getting English practice done every day which enhances our vocabulary, writing skills in English.
Advantages of twitter:
  • 1. Twitter is a micro-blogging website and social net work where we can share any kind of information.
  • 2. Many news papers and celebrities are also using twitter as a social media plat form.
  • 3. We can learn about new products
  • 4. We can be updated with current and breaking news.
  • 5. We can send messages to the whole world via twitter where millions of people can hear your message
  • 6. People are using this great platform to find, connect and interact with like minded people and eminent leaders, educationists etc.
  • 7. We can express our opinions on various local and global issues.
  • 8. For students of ESL, it helps to learn new vocabulary, grammar and have practice in writing especially using appropriate vocabulary to end those short messages
  • 9. If any body wants to send a quick message to other twitter users or followers, then twitter is a great plat form for them.
  • 10. We can write about any thing by using our right of speech.

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