Twitter 101 - Learning the lingo - The Diigo Meta page

• 01 Sep 09
  

  Alejandro Alonso
• 31 Aug 09
  

  Alejandro Tortolini

  Guia elaborada por Twitter para atraer a las empresas. Muy util como manual de iniciacion.

  twitter manual 101 uso for:@twitter

• 31 Jul 09
  

  Glenn M

  twitter tutorials

• 27 Jul 09
  

  InfoNet by Patricia Fernandez

  Twitter Business Guides

  • To receive messages on Twitter, you follow other people and companies you’re interested in—which means you get their messages as they
    post
  • Conversely, people get your messages
    by following you.
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  • • Users refer to an individual message as a tweet,
    • People sometimes use it as a verb, too
    • try “twittering” as a verb instead. Alternatives include “post,” “message” and
      “update.”
    • exchange public messages with individual users
    • Simply
      start a message with @username of the person you want to reach
    • If Ev is following your account, your message will appear directly on his Twitter home page. (If he’s not following your account, your
      message will appear in his folder of @username mentions
    • People who are following both you and Ev will also see the message
    • the message will appear in search results
    • @username automatically becomes a link to that person’s account
    • To find the public messages that are directed to you (i.e., those that start with your @BusinessName) or that mention you (i.e., those
      that include your @BusinessName elsewhere in the tweet), head to your Twitter home page, and then on the right side of the screen, click
      the tab labeled your @BusinessName
    • To reply easily from the Twitter website, mouse over a message, and then look on the right end for the “Reply arrow”.
      Click the arrow to start a new message addressed to the original user.
    • Direct messages—or DMs—are Twitter’s private messaging channel.
    • These tweets appear on your home page under the Direct Messages tab
    • DMs don’t appear in either
      person’s public timeline or in search results.
    • you can send them only to people who are following you
    • you can receive them only
      from people you’re following
    • You can easily send DMs from the Direct Messages tab by using the pull-down menu to choose a recipient and then typing in your note
    • To send a DM from your home page, start your message with “d username,”
    • you can repost their messages and give them
      credit. People call that retweeting (or RT), and it usually looks something like this: “RT @Username: Original message, often with a
      link.
    • Trending Topics, which are the most-mentioned terms
      on Twitter at that moment
    • the hashtag—which is just the # symbol
      followed by a term describing or naming the topic—that you add to a post
    • A tweetup is simply an in-person gathering organized via Twitter, often spontaneous
    • If you post a link on Twitter via the website, sometimes we automatically shorten the URL for you
    • There are also a number of services—URL shorteners—that take regular links and shrink them down to a manageable length for tweets, and some even let you track clicks

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