Twitter Terms

1. Twitter Terms • Tweepsare the people who follow you. • Tweet - when you post something to Twitter, this is formally called an update, but is better known as a tweet. • What should you tweet about? • “What am I thinking?” • “What do I want to know?” • Tweet links to new posts on your blog • When you have something funny or insightful to say, tweet. • Don’t tweet when you really don’t have anything to say. • Don’t be too serious in your tweets. 

2. Twitter Terms • @ is how you identify a tweep you are addressing or tweeting about. • Put @ in front of the user name - @amstechteacher - and people will know you are addressing or writing about that person. • In addition, Twitter will automatically turn the username into a hyperlink to his or her profile.

3. Twitter Terms • Replymeans to respond to a particular tweet.  • Retweetmeans to pass along something you read from one of your tweeps. You start a retweet with “RT @tweep’sname.”  Links are a great thing to retweet. • #Hashtagsare a tag to help group tweets about a particular event or topic.  • #japan #earthquake

4. Twitter Terms • Direct message or DMis a tweet sent directly to another tweet. • This should not appear in either person’s public Twitter stream.  • To reply by DM, type “d username” (with no @ symbol): “d amstechteacher”

5. Twitter Terms • Fail whaleis the graphic you see (featuring a whale) when Twitter is over capacity. • Favorite. If you really like a particular tweet, you can designate it as a favorite by clicking on the star at the right, which will become visible when your cursor is over the tweet. • You can see all your favorites through a link on the right of your home page.

6. Twitter Tasks: • Tweet for yourself • Follow me @amstechteacher • Do you need privacy settings on your account? • Reply to a tweet of one of your tweeps • RT @tweep’sname • #hashtags…….like #japan #earthquake • DM to one of your tweeps • Make a favorite tweet