Twitter is essentially an ultra-mini blogging service allowing very brief updates (or as a friend of mine once put it, “140 characters of meaningless information that no one cares about to show you’re still alive”).
The majority of people post to Twitter via their cell phones, although posting can be done directly from the Web as well.
If you post your own “tweets” keep an eye on the number of characters you use. Most cell phones allow TXT of 160 characters but Twitter cuts them off at 140.
To follow any of the Twitter accounts listed here you need to either join Twitter yourself and “follow” the account you’re interested in; or alternatively do something like “favorite” the Web pages you want and look at them from a browser.
If you get deeply involved with Twitter, consider something more powerfully directed at it like TweetDeck.
People blogging about specific activities or events will use “hash tags,” a “#” symbol in front of what they’re talking about (e.g. #WSOP). The hash tag can appear anywhere in the line and can be searched on within Twitter.
To send a message directly to (or about) someone, you use the “@” symbol immediately before their Twitter ID (e.g. to talk at Doyle Brunson you’d say “@TexDolly”). The @ can appear anywhere within the line. In general poker pros tend to talk about what they’re doing, but not respond to people tweeting at them.
Unless you make an account private, all messages can be seen by the Internet. To make a direct private message that is out of the visible Twitter stream put “D ” at the start of the message (e.g. “D TexDolly meet you at the steak house tonight.”)
