This is a 10 minute guide to Twitter for newbies. If you still haven’t figured out what is Twitter and why you should use Twitter then you can start with this post.

Youtube has hundreds of Tutorials for Twitter beginners. Whether you want to get yourself started on Twitter or want to learn about some Twitter’s desktop tools, the following YouTube videos will keep you entertained while educating you about various aspects of Twitter.

1. Twitter Tutorials – Getting Started

2. Twitter in Plain English

3. Top Twitter Tools Exposed

4. Twitter Tutorials – 5 Desktop Apss

5. TweetChat – Letterman – Kevin Spacey Tweets with Dave

Yesterday, Google has announced it officially that they will have their Operating System. Google has been competing Microsoft in many ways for quite long now. Google has started various projects over the years including Documents, Mobile, Search Engine and now the Operating System.

This shows that battle between Google and Microsoft is not new. Considering this, Ben Parr from mashable has performed some comparisons between Google and Microsoft, let’s have a look at a few highlights:

1. Google Search Vs Bing Search

Google: Google’s Search Engine is right now the most popular thing on web and has a page rank of 9 plus. There is no other search as popular as Google.

Microsoft: Microsoft earlier had Live search, which nobody really liked except Microsoft. But not long time back they brought the new cool “Bing” search engine. This so far has gone quite well and has made Google notice it.

Result: Google still wins from miles in search engine race.

2. Web Browser, Internet

Microsoft: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is running from ages. 90% of web users still use it. Its heavy and bugs are always easily noticeable. A majority of knowledgeable developer’s worldwide agrees that if people stop using Internet Explorer. Big revolutions can immediately be brought to web browsers. Personally using Internet Explorer sometimes reminds me of old ages in this very fast world

Google: Google’s Chrome is fast, live and growing every day. Google’s OS is also being said to as light as Google Chrome. This browser still misses some important features but Google believes to have a reason for that and will keep adding more taste to it.

Result: Google are ahead now in terms of technology, popularity makes IE win

3. E-mail and IM

Google: Gmail is Google’s best tool as far as instant email communication is concerned. Now with addition of Google Wave it is supposed to be much stronger. It is fast and brought revolution to communications worldwide. GTalk is also very light and is spreading fast.

Microsoft: While Microsoft still has the big picture they have the leading email communication service Hotmail, and the still most used IM “Windows Live Messenger”. So, Google still needs to go a long way to compete Microsoft here. Microsoft has also got the most widely used Ms Outlook Express with a lot of good features.

Result: Microsoft is still very ahead.

4. Operating System

Here comes the big fish now.

Microsoft: Most dominant since the arrival of Windows platform. They generate $60+ billion of their revenue each year from their Operating Systems. Microsoft has brought quite many fantastic GUI platforms to their users.

Google: Google so far has announced arrival of their Web OS. But it’s still to find out what would be so special and challenging in it for Microsoft’s Windows Operating Systems. Being open source for this operating system can be a big advantage over Microsoft in future.

Result: Microsoft is still big winner.

Microsoft vs. Everyone

These were the few main highlights discussed above but Google still have a long way to go, because Microsoft still has everything everyone needs today. Here is a small comparison of some of the other features Microsoft and everyone is providing:

5. Windows Live vs. Facebook

6. Microsoft Office vs. Open Office

7. Microsoft Expression vs. Adobe CS

8. Microsoft Silverlight vs. Adobe Flash Player

9. Microsoft Live Calendar vs. Google Calendar

10. Windows Live Translator vs. Google Traductor

11. Winows Live Mail (Feed, also in Outlook Express) vs. Google Reader

12. Windows Live WorkSpace vs. Google Docs

13. Windows Live Maps vs. Google Maps

14. Microsoft Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth

15. Windows Live Spaces vs. WordPress

16. Zune vs. iPod

17. Zune Software vs. iTunes

18. MSN SoapBox Video vs. Youtube

19. Microsoft Encarta vs. Wikipedia

20. XBOX 360 vs. PS3

21. WorldWide Telescope vs. Google Sky

and the list keeps going. If anyone really wants to battle Microsoft, they have a very long way to go.