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Here is a quick guide to twitter. There are some new terminology that new twitter users may not understand yet. So, we want to make sure that all of the My Twitter Tactics readers are on the same page so we put together this post to help. Learn the difference between a tweet and a twit and more. Have fun and we will see you on twitter!
Twitter Terminology Explained
* @username: Twitter Replies. This is how you communicate with people. If you add the @ in front of the username of the person, it will let them
know that you have sent a message to them. Twitter will also add an @
in front of any messages if you hit the reply button, so the recipient
knows that the message is coming from you – and what it’s in reference to.
* Follower: This is a person who has subscribed to follow the
messages that you post. You can choose to follow them too, so that
you can read each other’s messages – but it’s not compulsary.
* Tweet: A 140-character message sent to Twitter via phone, the web, or a third-party applications. Tweet are public and can be read on the public TwitterStream with two exceptions: (1) direct tweets and (2) protected tweets.
* TweetUp: A real-world meeting of people who have connected via Twitter.
* TwitterStream: A collection of tweets; usually refers to the stream of tweets sent by everyone that you follow but may refer to the public timeline of all tweets.
* DM or DT: A private (direct) tweet. Direct tweets do not appear in the public timeline.
* Favorite: A “bookmarked” tweet. Consider your “favorites” as a reflection of you (“brand me”). If you’re a business or a person, sprinkle some Twitter kudos in those favorites — with the operative word being sprinkle!
* RT or Retweet: Analogous to forwarding an email; re-sending a tweet sent by someone else. Courtesy: include the @username of the person who authored the tweet. Remove multiple instances of “RT” (ie, edit!). Consider revising in your own words and then crediting the sender with via @username.
