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title: "What is Twitter?"  
description: "What is Twitter?"  
author: "Steilla Mitchel"  
published: 2022-03-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96402/what-is-twitter  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "twitter", "social media"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Twitter?

What is Twitter?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- **[Twitter](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96396/why-should-i-use-twitter-over-facebook-or-instagram)** is a social networking and news website where users exchange short messages known as tweets. Tweeting is the practise of sending short messages to anyone who follows you on Twitter in the hopes that your comments will be beneficial and interesting to someone among your followers. Microblogging is a term that could be used to describe Twitter and tweeting.
- Some individuals use Twitter to find fascinating people and businesses on the internet and then choose to follow their tweets.
- Twitter's main selling point is how easy it is to scan. Hundreds of interesting Twitter users can be followed and their information read at a glance, which is ideal in today's attention-deficit society.

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