What the Tweet?

So, you've heard the phrase, you've seen your kids entirely zoned out either staring at the phone, or computer screen relaying back to you or their friends what Ashton Kutcher just said or where Taylor Swift will be giving their next concert.. and you have to wonder what is a tweet? or twitter? or tweeple?

Twitter (according to wikipedia - so take the site as you will) is: an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011,^[6] generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.^[3][8][9] It has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."^[10]

a tweet = the message someone sends just a fancy nick name. Twitter is the social media site that runs the whole she-bang and "tweeple" are the PEOPLE that follow you or that you want to follow you - or that just simply exist..

still confused?... thought so! basically (here's where my educated opinion comes in - that I warned you all about), twitter is a way for people; celebrities, commonfolk, politicians, businesses and even groups, to send out little (sometimes criptic) messages to their followers - aka FANS or beings that just want to be 'in the know'. These specific messages can include a hashmark (#) infront of a word or phrase like #bieberfan and then ANYONE ELSE that's also purposely or accidentally put #bieberfan in their TWEET will then be able to click the phrase - thats right parents - just click the phrase I promise theres a hidden link there and you'll be blasted with all of those TWEETS as well.