Both use Adobe Air, a tool that lets the program work in the background while continuously refreshing its content. TweetDeck and Seesmic are two programs that do a good job of filtering others’ tweets and aiding the process of writing tweets. You can also send direct messages to another Twitter user as long as he or she is following you. You can comment on a tweet by sending the person who wrote it an “at reply,” named because the reply starts with the sign followed by the user name of the person to whom you are replying. That said, you can always choose to block someone from following you or stop following someone’s Twitter feed. Though it’s possible to lock your account so it’s private, very few people do so because Twitter encourages open communication throughout the Web. You can see whom one person follows, and then opt also to follow those same people and the people those people follow and so on. These may be friends or people you simply find interesting, like journalists whose work you read (my Twitter user name is kabster728).

To get a Twitter account in the first place, you will need to sign up with a user name and password at and start following people-or subscribing to read someone’s updates.

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