• Twitter is a social platform for sharing one’s views. Users can open their account on Twitter and broadcast their views in the form of short messages. These messages are popularly known as tweets.
• A tweet is a message posted on Twitter that is up to 140 characters long. It can contain text, photos, links, and videos, which automatically take up to 22 characters.
• The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet.