What Is a Tweet?

To Tweet or not to Tweet

So exactly what is a tweet? Well, let’s see if I can give you a basic definition in 280 characters (maximum allowable tweet size) or less:

A tweet is a message sent on Twitter. Well now, that’s only 37 characters including the spaces and punctuation. That leaves me 243 more characters. Oops now THAT’s 143 total characters — and I still have 137 more if I want to use all my allowed characters to actually be able to tweet it. And now I am way over. 🙂

Hopefully that’s enough to give you the basic idea of what a tweet is. Oh, and I guess the other part is that people use all kinds of abbreviations to squeeze in more content.  There used to be ads like “If  u cn read ths ad, u cn  get a gd job!” It’s kind of like that.

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