Microblogging/Creating a microblog on Twitter

Twitter is a commercial online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and can be described as "the SMS of the Internet." Twitter is the one of the most popular microblogging services and is widely used by educators and learners worldwide.

Anyone can create a Twitter account for free.

On completion of this subsection you will:


 * Gain an overview of the Twitter microblogging service
 * Create a Twitter account
 * Customise your profile settings
 * Practice posting a Tweet including a hashtag.