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Twitter Tutorials
By Jay-NguyenFollow Me @phongv
Contents
1 What is Twitter?
2 Twitter & Seadev
3 Key Twitter Jargon
4 Q&A
1 What is Twitter?Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July.
The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 140 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 millions tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.
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2 Twitter & Seadev?
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3 Key Twitter Jargon
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a. Tweet: A ‘Tweet’ is your 140 character message you send.
b. Your Timeline: This is your Twitter homepage, it shows you all of the messages (Tweets) from the people you have decided to follow with the most recent first.
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c. Follow: If you are interested in reading someone’s ‘Tweets’, you ‘follow’ them and then their updates appear in your timeline.
d. Followed: This is the amount of people that have chosen to see your ‘Tweets’ in their timeline.
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e. @ reply: Originally on Twitter there was no way to send a message to anyone, but after a short while it was obvious that people wanted to be able to reply to interesting ‘Tweets’ they had seen so the @ reply was introduced. You use the @ sign followed by the Twitter username of the person you want to reply to. This is a public reply and appears in the users timeline even if they don’t follow you. (@replies are also known as @messages or @mentions)
f. RT (Retweets): ‘Retweeting’ is simply the act of reposting someone else’s interesting ‘Tweet’ – if you have found it interesting then it is likely your followers will find it interesting too.
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g. shorturl:
With only 140 characters to say your piece, if you want to add a link into the mix, it can sometimes mean you only have a couple of words remaining to explain it. A short URL is where an extended URL like: http://www.fusingcreativity.com/marketing-services/coaching/ becomes: http://fusing.so/kiGPZZ
Both point to the same webpage but the latter has significantly less characters. I use a service called www.bit.ly with a personal shortening domain (www.fusing.so) but using their domain is just as good.
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h. # Hash tags: are used to add context to your ‘Tweet’ within a theme or event for example. You may use #wimbledon if talking about Wimbledon or #miltonkeynes if your tweet is relevant to the Milton Keynes area. Using hash tags is important as people use these as search terms and it means that your tweet will appear in more than just your followers timelines.
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i. DM Direct Message: A personal message sent to you or from you to another user. Only the sender and receiver can see this message but it still has the restrictions of 140 characters. You can only send a ‘DM’ to users that are following you. Also known as a Direct Tweet.
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4 Q&A
References
1. twodegreesmarketing.com (2012). ‘Social Media Terminology’, Two Degrees Marketing [Online]. Available at: http://www.twodegreesmarketing.com/resources/social-media-information/
