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Modern means of communication gained popularity on the internet particularly social websites. No one could imagine that a new social website would be as popular as Facebook. However, Twitter for example, and as soon as it has been created has been used by a lot of people ranging from politicians to actors to musicians to business people to IT people to just regular everyday people.

-What made Twitter so popular?

What made Twitter almost as popular as Facebook is the fact that it was presented as a very simple application that is easily accessible and easy to use to get and share information. It is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read other user's updates known as tweets. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

"What are you doing?" is the question being asked by Twitter. If you have information you want to share, you can share it in 140 characters or less without needing to elaborate on it so much. If you need to elaborate, you could always use a blog for that.

Twitter users follow other Twitter users, usually referred to as followers, They are usually people, communities, groups or companies that share similar interests. The fact that you can follow people without needing them to follow you back has also helped Twitter spread among its users fast. At first, it was mostly used by celebrities which has given it a bright start. In deed, for celebrities, what probably was the main reason for appreciating the use of Twitter is that they don't really need to know updates from thousands of people's lives every second of the day. That proved to be true for regular everyday people too.

-What makes new social websites spread easily?

Once created, a new social website doesn't need as much advertisement as any other sort of lucrative or non lucrative products. They spread among users and through users themselves smoothly and naturally.

In fact the reasons of success are almost the same for various social websites whatever the applications, innovations and facilities they offer. It's the need for people to be close to each other, to hear from each other, to socialize with each other and to share each other's success, anger, happiness and even failure due to their human civilian nature without forgetting their need to confess or just talk without being interrupted, judged or criticized.

You would like to create a new social website? You are wondering what applications and innovations or facilities might encourage people to use it? Don't worry! People's human civilian nature is the key of a social website success. Just make it attractive and easy to use.

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