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Twitter working hard to add tweeters

There are smaller tweaks designed to help people find new features or take advantage of tools they might not have been aware of.

And there’s just explaining the basics.

Recently, some Twitter users got a message saying “Retweet to share what interests you with your followers.”

While elementary advice for some, the note shows Twitter is still trying to teach people how to use its service. Retweeting, in Twitter lingo, means blasting out someone else’s Twitter post to your own followers, sort of like an email forward. More here.

Do you use Twitter? Why or why not?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.