Helpful Twitter Tips for Beginners

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter! Wherever you go, you’ll see the word Twitter on people’s blogs or websites. Twitter has certainly conquered the virtual world! So if you haven’t jumped on this Twitter bandwagon, it’s never too late to do so now! As this could probably be something new for you and it’s also the reason why you end up reading my article now 🙂 Let’s take a few minutes and see what a Twitter beginner can do on their first day with Twitter!

To share links, shorten URLs

Alright, some of the web pages might have long URLs and you may be wondering, how on earth can I squeeze those URLs into a microblogging system that only allows 140 characters? Charge no more. There are many free tools to reduce or shorten URLs so you can tweet them within the limited characters allowed. The most popular are bit.ly, is.gd, tiny.cc, ow.ly

To reply, use the @ sign

So, if you want to create a reply for someone on Twitter or send a message to that person publicly and you don’t mind others knowing what you write for him/her, remember to put @ in front of the person’s Twitter username . For example, @username, see you tonight!

For direct message use DM

If you want to send a private message to Twitter users, you can locate this DM feature in your Twitter dashboard. However, keep in mind that you can only send direct messages to Twitter users who follow you.

To retweet, put RT

Sometimes you find that certain tweets from other users are worth sharing. So, you intend to share it with your list of followers. It’s best if you can retweet the original tweets and return the credit to the original user. Just RT @username before you post it yourself.

To share photos, use TwitPic

Web 2.0 is all about sharing. So, if you want to share photos via Twitter, you can choose to use TwitPic, the most popular image sharing service on Twitter. Go to twitpic.com and sign in with your Twitter username and password. There are also other Twitter image sharing services. Those notable ones are TweetPhoto (tweetphoto.com), Twitgoo (twitgoo.com), and Picktor (picktor.com).

To categorize your tweets, use # hashtag

When you want to create a group or special keywords, you can use #. For example, #Obama will create a group that specifically mentions Obama. So when you do a Twitter search on Obama, you can easily track all the conversations or tweets on that topic.

I hope the article manages to help you all get an idea of ​​how to use Twitter.