Twitter for Individuals
Twitter is used to create brand awareness, increase followers, and provide informative and relevant content.
Twitter also allows businesses to interact with consumers in real time.
The Twitter strength are the real-time applications.
It also has paid options that enable businesses to promote accounts, tweets, and trends.
Twitter online social networking:
Enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.
Terms
Twitter Handle - username, your user name, usually:
Uniquely catchy
Easy to remember and spell
May not want to use your full name
Profile picture or avatar
Bio
Tweet - up to a 140 character message
Re Tweet or RT - resharing or giving credit to someone else's tweet
Feed - stream of tweets you see on your Twitter homepage
Updates form users you follow
Advertisements
Mention - @username - a way to reference in a tweet another Twitter user
Direct Message or DM - a private message upto 140 characters between 2 Twitter users
Can only DM a user who follows you
Privacy settings
Accept direct messages?
Hashtag - # - pound symbol with letters or numbers, no spaces, the shorter the better
Linked topic or conversation categorization
Allows others to find Tweets on the topic
Click on a hashtag to see all Tweets with that hashtag in realtime
Example, #unitewnc - a hashtag for all online tools to group dialogue on uniting Western North Carolina tech (IT)) planning
Training
Twitter Help Center
Tools
Blab
Canva - for your social media image designs
Click to Tweet - promote & advertise on Twitter
MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic
Riffle: Full profile and info on any Twitter user
SocialRank: Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter
Spruce: Make Twitter ready images in seconds
Apps
Kanvas - creative self expressions for output to Twitter
Tweetbot for the iPhone
Background content fetch
Media Timeline
Drafts
Customer services / Customized tab
Push and inline notifications
Power Mute
Wifi Streaming
Articles
Twitter Hashtags Can Contribute To Real World Change, Study Finds
How to find and remove fake followers from Twitter and Instagram
Tips
Choose the right Twitter handle (use the @)
Use #hashtags
140 character limit - tweet with links
Make full-length URLs shorter with sites like:
bit.ly
TinyURL.com
Follow to be followed, choose wisely
Shorten URLs with http://www.bit.ly
Add the follow button to your site instead of a T icon
Brand your Twitter channel to match your website and other social media accounts
Be active every day
The blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic