What is twittering and how does it work ? Part 1 messages = tweets
What is a global stack of short text messages good for that is free to use and open for multi purpose ?
There are two ways how you can get value from using Twitter:
1) Leverage all messages others putting right now on the global stack of messages
2) Publish your own messages for whatever you see as a value
This is part 1 of a mini tutorial about twitter: What can you put into a message (called tweet)?
a) Type something like “Hello World”
Type a text message (the tweet) and press the update button. That is all. You put your first tweet out on Twitter.
More inside this post, just click here.
b) Publish a bookmark
A URL is also text and therefore something you can publish in a tweet.
But URL´s are sometimes long. URL Shortener services create for you a shorter URL that links to the same web-page.
A shorter URL will allow you to type more in your tweet.
c) Refer in your tweet to another Twitter user
Put the @symbol in front of the Twitter user id to refer in a tweet to another user on Twitter.
If you put the@userid at the beginning of a tweet Twitter will understand this as a direct reply to that user.
But you can also use the @userid in the middle of a tweet if you want.
d) Refer in your tweet to a tweet of another Twitter user
Put RT (for re-tweet) in front of the @userid and then copy the tweet from that user.
You do not have to do this, but this way you give credit to the original author of the tweet (amd you follow the current best practice on Twitter).
e) Put the # symbol in front of any word so that users can easily search on Twitter for other tweets that include that word
Clicking on #itunes in the above tweet will directly lead to a search on Twitter for other tweets that contain “itunes”:
Experts talk in this context about a hash tag.
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