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When Twitter was started, at the time no one knew that a microblogging tool would become a big source for real time news and other content.

"What are you doing?" This was the most common question everyone was asking to each other. To solve this, Twitter came up with a solution in form of micro-updates where a user needed to update the status so the world would know what that person was doing. Basically the tool started out as a person-to-person communications platform but as a popular and much wider audience started to adopt it, it's been seen as a rich source for news and a live event coverage service.

The platform which started its journey to serve p2p communication has now officially changed its meaning. According to Twitter, "What you're doing?" isn't the right question anymore. Now it's "What’s Happening?" This question is showing the future path for Twitter.

People still may be updating their status that pertain to what they were eating, watching on TV, or simply saying good night, even some people were giving their bathroom flush updates. For some time it was okay but now people find it boring. Most people are not interested what you're eating or flushing only because now people on Twitter are trying to find good source of information which is created by millions of people like you and me. People are witnessing accidents, organizing events, sharing links, breaking news, reporting stuff their dad says, and so much more. That's why big search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo come to Twitter to grab the real-time information.

More and more brands started to adopt Twitter for their brand building strategy. Many companies also added customer support service by using tidy 140 characters.


The fundamental concept of Twitter is changing from "What are you doing?" to "what's happening?" but that will also change soon enough and will be replaced by "Where is it happening?" Twitter is also working on location-based information, so after implementing that core, they'll become a big player for delivering and finding information based on geography.


Basically, their motivation has changed. Go and check out the motivation behind this move in Twitter’s own words.

Twitter is slowly rolling out a retweet capability in all accounts. Early users who got this capability into their accounts will see many new changes in user interface.

First of all, let's see what the new changes are. When someone does a retweet of what you say, you'll see his or her profile under that particular tweet, indicating how many people did the same thing.

Another change is while that you have always seen how many direct message you've got and how many favorites you marked, now you'll also see how many times you've been retweeted. So now you'll get all your retweet data under your roof!

Another change is now you'll see the retweet button under each and every message, so you can do instant retweet for interesting and good tweets of your choice. Even you can reverse your actions by just clicking the undo button.

You'll also see whose tweet you can retweet by just visiting his or her profile where you able to see green mark.