HOW TO: Explain Twitter to Your Parents

Still struggling to explain the utility of Twitter to your family back home? (I know I am.) Well, we’re all in luck. The MashableMashable staff stumbled across a guide titled “Mom, This Is How Twitter Works,” a lovely, easy-to-swallow breakdown of the microblogging site.

Jessica Hische — who you might know as the creator of Daily Drop Cap — made the informal Twitter guide. It outlines what’s what, who’s who, who sees what and everything in between in the Twitterverse.

“I am not an employee of Twitter, just an avid (understatement) user of the service that wanted to lend a hand to Twitter n00bs,” Hische says.

Whether you’re an old hand at crafting 140-character messages or you know zilch about tweeting, you’ll probably learn something from Hische’s explanation. At the very least, it will help you explain what TwitterTwitter is all about to those less familiar with it, because, after all, only 6% of the entire adult U.S. population uses Twitter.

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