Twitter is gaining more followers

Are you on twitter yet? #getwithit

This generation are obsessed with telling people exactly what they're doing and when...why?

Ellie Saunder.

The Guardian.com, Monday 14th October 2013 14:20 BST

The Twitter logo; which I expect we'll be seeing more of.

Twitter.com is a website where you can tell all your followers anything you want that fits into a 140 character limit. Sounds pointless, right? Well in 2012, according to the 'illuminating facts about Twitter: 2012 edition article on PR Daily by S Collier' there were 500 million registered profiles, 100 million of these were active, and 50 million of these were active daily (according to illuminating facts about Twitter: 2012 edition article on PR Daily by S Collier). That's a big jump if you ask me, 500 accounts and only 100 of these actually active? Maybe it is pointless. Why would you want to read what all your friends and strangers are doing, and see their internal thoughts every second? Is this actually a useful addition to our lives?

Unlike facebook, unless you protect your tweets, anyone can see what you're saying and tweeting, however Twitter doesn't seem to be as personal as the likes of facebook. Tweets seem to be more generalized, and you can follow basically anyone you like, as long as they don't protect their tweets, anyone follows anyone who has a something in common with them. You can even follow your most loved celebrity if they have an account and keep up to date with them, sounds good ay.

However Twitter throws up trouble as well (what doesn't?), especially the constant hatred towards 'Beliebers' and 'Directioners' (I know, just bare with me) who are fans of the famous Justin Bieber and One Direction, which is thrown around using various hashtags. Hashtags are a way of making your tweet appeal to people who are also interested in that topic. This is a hashtag: # (ah, the subheading is making more sense now isn't it?)  and you can put anything you like after it, as long it's got no spaces or punctuation. Then people can go to the search bar and search hashtags, and therefore stumbling upon your tweet. Amazing!

You don't need to tweet things to have a twitter account, it defeats the whole point of the website, but you can simply have a twitter account to read what other people say, follow friends, read news articles, the list is endless. However you wouldn't be the only one to do this if you did, you would be joining the estimated 40% of all Twitter users that do this already. You don't even need to send a request to follow someone if their Twitter isn't protected, why not give it a try #itssimple