Introducing Chatter

Chatter makes your app collaborative like never before. Once you enable Chatter for your organization, you can turn on feeds for most standard objects and all custom objects, allowing you to see real-time updates whenever anything changes. Users can post to feeds, comment on other posts, share files and links, work together on documents, follow people and records, and more. With feed tracking, users can even follow specific fields on a record; when a value for one of those fields changes, Chatter posts an update to the feed, instantly alerting everyone who follows that record. With mentions, users can mention someone to make sure that person sees their update. And with hashtags, users can add topics to posts and comments so other people can find their updates more easily.

Chatter users have their own personal profile feeds, where they can post updates and see updates from the people and records they're following. Users can also form public or private groups for more focused collaboration. Each group has its own feed, where the group members can share information, ask questions, and upload files for collaboration. Chatter makes it easy to connect with the people and information you care about most.

For more information, see “Chatter Overview” in the Salesforce Help.