After overhearing some totally off base comments regarding twitter today, I thought that I’d do some community service and publish a few helpful Twitter definitions
Tweet
A “tweet” is a post on Twitter. It is 140 characters or less.
Twitter Search
Twitter has a search function that allows you to search for words, phrases, people and more within Twitter. This finds Tweets that have been published as recently as the past minute and as long ago as Twitter has been around – it’s like using a real-time search engine!
Hashtag
A hashtag is a series of characters preceded by the # symbol. It is used to tie posts from multiple Twitter users together on one topic or event so that you can track them (or at least view them easily)
Hashtags make searching for information about products, events, companies and other topics easy – just search for the hashtag, and all related posts are shown.
To create a hashtag, you simply start using it and encourage others to use it as well. Try typing your hashtag into the search function at Twitter before starting to use it, just to be sure that its not already in use. Also, remember to keep it short… you only have 140 characters for your post!
Replying/Commenting/Recognizing
To tweet publicly (where your followers can see your tweets) to another Twitter user, just use the “@” sign in front of their username. For example, to get our attention, tweet: @tedbox and well be sure to see the tweets!
Direct Message
If you want to reply to someone – but don’t want your followers to see what you say, simply direct message the user. Instead of “@USERNAME”, youll use “d USERNAME” (the letter “d”, a space and then the username). This will go directly to the user and be hidden from other users. Just remember that you can only DM your followers.
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