
With these 300 million users, Twitter is one of the most used social networks of the moment. The principle is simple: share information as quickly as possible using messages up to 140 characters long. Before trying to tame this bird, it is good to know its specific vocabulary, here is a lexicon to better understand the language used by the twittosphere: Tweet: The tweet is the short message through which information circulates on the network, limited to 140 characters, and can recently include images, gifs and videos (hence the verb tweeter). Timeline (Newsfeed): The newsfeed is the main page of Twitter, it is here that messages are displayed accounts that you follow (see next word). To follow: Follow someone, sign up for their account, in other words see all the tweets of this person on his newsfeed. Following: The number of people / accounts that the user follows. Followers (Subscribers): The number of people / accounts ...