Many new Twitter users struggle to grow their twitter following in the beginning. Unless you’re famous or  some kind of celebrity, getting new useful followers can be hard.

When you look at some people on Twitter they have 20 000, 50 000, some have 100’s of thousands of twitter followers. How do they do that?

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Do I need to mention the most popular social media sites? Probably not, because the likelihood that you have heard about or used Facebook or Twitter is great.

Facebook has over 500 million users, and Twitter has close to 200 million users and YouTube has close to 500 million users. That is a lot of clout.

To put it into perspective:

6.8 Billion people in the world 1.9 Billion use the internet 0.5 Billion use Facebook...

Twitter is a fantastic tool. Problem is you can only use 140 characters. Hardly enough for an essay. Nevertheless people are able to get their conversation across.

Even "texting" or "SMSing" has a limit of 140 characters. So many teenagers are physically attached to their mobile phones 24/7.

To get one point across that might contain more than 140 characters, one has to carefully select ones words, and at times carefully shorten or abbreviate some words.

However, parents and teachers are worried that this will lower the spelling capability and English skills of many teenagers.

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Twitter is a growing social media phenomenon. Many people are using...

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