subject: Handy Twitter Tips For Noobs [print this page] Twitter, Twitter, Twitter! Everywhere you go, you'll see the word Twitter on people's blogs or sites. Twitter has without doubt taken the virtual world by storm! Hence if you have not jumped on to this Twitter bandwagon, it is never too late to leap now! As probably this could be something new for you and it is also why you end up reading my article now : ) let's take a minute or two and see what a Twitter noob can do on his / her first day with Twitter! Do take note that Twitter and Pay per click are 2 different elements in Internet marketing.
To share links, shorten URLs
Alright, some of the web pages may have long URLs and you will be wondering, how the hell am I able to squeeze those urls on a micro-blogging system that only permits One hundred and forty characters ?! Fret no more. There are plenty of free tools to shrink or shorten the URLs so that you can tweet it within the limited characters authorized. The popular ones are bit.ly, is.gd, tiny.cc, ow.ly
To reply, use sign
So, if you would like to create a answer to someone on twitter or send a message to that person in public and you do not mind others knowing what you write for him / her, don't forget to put in front of the person's Twitter user-name. For instance username, meet you tonight!
To direct message, use DM
If you'd like to send a private message to Twitter users, you can locate this DM function in your Twitter control panel. However, do remember that you can only direct message Twitter users who are following you only.
To retweet, put RT
Occasionally you find that certain tweets by other users are worth sharing. So, you mean to share it with your list of fans. It is best if you can retweet the original tweets and give credit back to the original user. Just put RT username before you post it yourself.
To share photos, use TwitPic
Web 2.0 is all about sharing. Therefore, if you want to share photos via Twitter, you can opt to use TwitPic, the hottest image sharing services on Twitter. Go to twitpic.com and sign in with your Twitter username and password. There are other Twitter image sharing services as well. Those outstanding ones are TweetPhoto ( tweetphoto.com ), Twitgoo ( twitgoo.com ) and Picktor ( picktor.com ).
To specify your tweets, use hashtag
When you would like to make a group or special keywords, you may use. As an example, Obama will create a group that particularly mentions Obama. Therefore, when you run a search on Twitter on Obama, it can simply track all the talks or tweets on that topic.
I am hoping the work manages to help all of you get a glimpse regarding how to use Twitter.
