How does Twitter work?

[mountainboo]

I have never used it or even seen it until today and just wondered what it is and how it works? I was curious to find out more about an actor that I respect the work of - Mark Gatiss and the search engine led me to Twitter. Do you speak to them directly on it, like msn or something? TIA

[AlBags]

A rather useless and irritating web-based software created by people with too much time on their hands to enable other people with too much time on their hands to report their every passing thought by text utterances brosdcast to all and sundry who care to read it.
Nice.

[anneasquith]

albags. it sounds a bit like facebook. is it ?

[AlBags]

Just as time and life-wasting probably .. yes.
I have friends who spend hours on it just fiddling about.
A bit like mass texting you every thought-induced movement.

[sherrardk]

I went on it once (didn't write anything) and within minutes there were people following me (people who I have never heard of) - all very weird in my opinion.

[AlBags]

They all telephone you and you get visits from strangers at all times of the day and night. : )

[anneasquith]

not unlike CB then, lol