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Twit’s what you make it

September 6th, 2011 by David Bradley >> No Comments

A quick glossary might help:

Home timeline – all the tweets from your followees.

@reply – reply to another Twitter user, they and your followers see the reply. Add a . before the @ so that everyone sees it.

d @reply or DM @reply – direct message goes to the person’s private message box only.

Hashtag – keyword or phrase preceded by hash (pound in US) symbol # brings together tweets on same topic.

Retweet @reply or RT @reply – shares a tweet and gives credit to the person who first posted it.