A cou­ple of friends and fam­i­ly have been ask­ing:

• What’s up w/ the sta­tus updates I see quite often?
• What’s w/ the “@” (at sym­bol) next to names on your sta­tus?
• What the heck is a tweet?
• etc.

Rather than point­ing them to Twit­ter’s site, I rather just show them this video:

I hope that makes sense. Thanks to Com­mon Craft. They have done a great job explain­ing it “in plain eng­lish” =)

Update
Some Twit­ter terms writ­ten by Peter Cash­more on Mash­able.