Twitter: How to tweet?

Lots of people have different opinions on twitter, but nothing can change the fact that it's very popular and is used worldwide. However one problem I have with twitter is knowing what to tweet and why people would want to read my tweets?

'Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads saying, "if only there were technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal".' - Extract from the TIME magazine article How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live.  

One main reason for people to start tweeting is so they can interact with their famous idols in hope that they will notice them. That's when the problems start, what is the probability that this person will even see your tweet if millions of people like you are also tweeting them at the same time? It's highly unlikely that they will even reply to you.

So why do people tweet? Why was twitter set up in the first place? How does this social networking site benefit our lives in any way? For some people it's a way of releasing their emotions, for others it produces a form of free advertisement, a way for them to get noticed. Twitter could in some way help boost a business and help attract customers from all around the world. Twitter can actually benefit us in lots of ways in the jobs market. However, I still fail to see how it affects people on a day to day bases to know what I am currently doing?

The simple answer to this question is that it doesn't make a big difference to anyone's life. It is simply a form on social entertainment. It allows people to communicate and makes friends all across the world who have similar interests as them. So going back to the question, how to tweet? And what to tweet, the answer to that question is far too big to give one simple answer. Depending on what you use your twitter account for, you can tweet anything you want to tweet about, whether it's advertising your new music single or clothing brand. Or even just saying that you had for breakfast this morning. The number of things you could tweet is unlimited and is completely up to you.

Here are some interesting facts from the article '20 illuminating facts about Twitter: 2012 edition' from the website PR Daily.
1. There are 100 million active Twitter users.
2. 50% of these 100 million users log in every day.
3. 40% of twitter users don't actually tweet; instead, they read news, click links and follow accounts.
4. 15% of adults on the internet used Twitter in February 2012.
5. Twitter has 500 million registered profiles; 100 million are from the U.S.

So what do you tweet about?