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In the "Social Networking" menu, you can navigate among the programs by
pressing “up arrow button” or “down arrow button”. To open a program,
press "Enter" on the program or type the shortcut key associated with the
program.
16.2 Twitter
"Twitter" is a micro-blogging service that allows you to post messages in real
time to those who follow you and read the posts of friends and family as well
as news sites and other organizations that wish to post information for public
reading.
You can also send and receive replies to your posts, repost tweets from
others, send direct messages to those who follow your tweets, and easily
search and retrieve tweets by adding them to your favorites.
To launch "Twitter", follow these steps:
1) From the main menu, press "c" or navigate to "Social Networking" using
“down arrow button” and press "Enter".
2) Press "t" or move to "Twitter" and press "Enter".
16.2.1 Twitter Terminology
1) Tweet: A message posted in "Twitter". It is similar to posting on a
message board. The difference is, there is no space to write a title.
2) Tweets allow you to post 140 characters regardless of language. A tweet
can also contain a URL.
3) Mention: When you repost someone's tweet, reply to someone's tweet, or
mention them in a tweet of your own.
4) Reply: to answer a tweet, by a specific user.
5) Follow: to follow other users. You can subscribe to other user's tweets
thus, you are following them.
6) Followers: other users who follow you, or rather, who subscribe to your
tweets.
