Communicate with Friends

• The primary use of Twitter is to update friends on the day-to-day happenings in your life. You might use Twitter to tell your friends how you feel about a movie or television show you have just seen, for example, or suppose you are about to go to a coffee shop and want to get as many of your friends as possible to join you. A single text message to Twitter can allow you to contact all of your friends simultaneously.
  
  

Market a Business

• Twitter allows you to create an account for a business. If you do this, you can encourage your customers to follow you to stay abreast of your latest promotions and product releases. Not only can Twitter allow you to communicate with a large number of customers with little effort, but Twitter can also greatly increase your promotional reach. If you send a message that greatly interests your followers, they may rebroadcast it to their followers, earning attention for your business from a large number of people without any money spent on advertising.
  
  

Meet New People

• Twitter allows you to see the people who follow others, unless they have configured their privacy settings to make their profiles unavailable to the public. Using this feature, you can browse your friends' follower lists and potentially find other local people who share your interests. Begin following them and strike up a conversation -- you may end up making a new friend.
  
  

Follow Your Heroes

• Many famous people, including athletes, actors and musicians, are Twitter members. You can confirm a Twitter account with a famous name is actually that person by looking for the "Verified Account" badge on the right side of their profile page. By following a famous person on Twitter, you can communicate directly with them and learn more about their daily activities. You may find they occasionally give special presents to their most loyal fans, such as a personal picture or unreleased song.