WHAT IS TWITTER?
Twitter is a new social network (similar to Facebook) that lets you send messages to a huge range of people around the world. Your updates are limited to 140 characters, just like an SMS.
WHAT IS FOLLOWING?
Following on Twitter is like friending on Facebook – if you follow somebody you will get their updates. The main difference is that the other person doesn’t have to accept you as a friend for you to connect with them. I might follow you but you don’t have to follow me back.
HOW IS IT DIFFERENT TO FACEBOOK/LINKEDIN?
All of these networks can be used in many different ways – Twitter is just another option for you. I have found it great for connecting with a big range of people in different places around the world. Because each message is limited to 140 characters it means your messages have to be concise and that makes it easier to keep up with.
WHY WON’T PEOPLE FOLLOW ME?
There is some great advice about this at http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://mashable.com%2F2009%2F01%2F06%2Ftwitter-follow-fail%2F – it really helps if you have an interesting profile.
AnandNataraj 
Hi Anand:
Nice article. It is neatly composed and concise.
I have forwarded to my team members. Interestingly, we are now testing Twitter integrations in some of our websites and just couple of days back; I had a session with my team on Twitter. So the topic is still warm and definitely they will find this useful
Talking about Twitter, few months back, I came across a similar functionality in a site called Plurk (http://www.plurk.com). Let me know if you have tried that and your views on that (if you have time… otherwise don’t worry…)
P.S: In one of your post, you said that you are planning for a photography course. You have any details on that. I am also looking out for doing some photography course. By the way, what camera you use… I am looking out for a new one…
Regards,
Swami
http://ksawme.blogspot.com
Dear Swami,
thank you veyr much, but to be frank this is not my post i took it from face book and posted it here for my readers…
It is really nice to see that you are taking steps to enlighten your team by taking sessions on new media stuff… Twitter is going to become a powerful medium… Even itz founders wouldnt have expected it to become this powerful…
I’m sorry i was little held up with work so was unable to review plurk.com will do it now…
Regarding photography institutes there is one in Alwarpet, but i didnt join because i’ll be shuttling between chennai, bangalore and madurai every month… Will search for the address and will email it to you…
Thank you,
Anand