Twitter! Wherever you go, you'll see the word Twitter in your blog or website people. Almost everyone now uses the Twitter social media to reveal what they think, or sharing a variety of news circulating. Twitter has no doubt taken the virtual world by storm! So, if you have not jumped on this bandwagon nervousness, never too late to jump now! Like maybe this might be something new for you and also why you end up reading my article today:) let's get a few minutes and see what Twitter can do in the beginner / her first day with Twitter!
To share links, shorten URL
Alright, some web pages may have a long URL and you'll wonder, how on Earth can I squeeze url on micro-blogging system that only allows 140 characters?! Restless again. There are many free tools to shrink or shorten the URL so you can tweet it in limited characters allowed. What is popular is bit.ly, is.gd, tiny.cc, ow.ly
To reply, use the @ sign
So, if you want to make a reply to someone on twitter or send a message to someone who is open and you do not mind other people knowing what you are writing for him, remember to put @ in front of the Twitter user name that person. For example, @ username, see you tonight!
To direct messages, use DM
If you want to send a private message to Twitter user, you can find this function in your control panel DM tweet. However, do keep in mind that you can only direct message Twitter users who follow you alone.
To retweet, placing RT
Sometimes you find that certain tweets by other users who are worthy to share. So, you intend to share with the list of followers. It is best if you could retweet the original tweets and give credit back to the original user. Just enter a username @ RT before your own posts.
To share photos, use TwitPic
Web 2.0 is all about sharing. Therefore, if you want to share photos via Twitter, you can choose to use TwitPic, a photo sharing service of the most popular on Twitter. Go to twitpic.com and sign in with your Twitter username and password. There are other image sharing service Twitter as well. Those who stand out are TweetPhoto (tweetphoto.com), Twitgoo (twitgoo.com) and Picktor (picktor.com).
To categorize your tweets, use # hashtag
If you want to create group or specific keywords, you can use #. For example, # Obama will create a group that specifically mentions Obama. Therefore, if you run a search on Twitter about Obama, can easily keep track of all conversations or tweets on the topic.
I hope this article helped you all manage to get a glimpse of how to use Twitter.
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