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Twitter is a social communication tool that allows people to broadcast short messages. It is often described as the SMS of the Internet, and it is an online social media and microblogging site that allows its users to send and receive short 140-character messages called tweets. The restriction to 140 characters is to allow Twitter to be used on non-smartphone mobile devices.
Twitter has over 500 million users (with approximately 300 million of these are active users), and it is one of the most visited websites in the world. Users may access Twitter through its website interface, a mobile device app or SMS.
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Twitter has been ranked as one of the ten-most-visited websites in the world.
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Schaefer MW (2014) The tao of twitter. Changing your life and business 140 characters at a time, 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, New York
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Twitter. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_33
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