Twitter School: Retweeting and Notifications

Retweeting

Retweeting is easy with a click of the retweet symbol, but you can personalize a retweet. 

To amend a tweet before retweeting:

 1 - Copy the tweet

 2 - Begin tweet with RT @originaltweeter (RT means retweet)

       

      Example: to retweet one of my tweets, type RT @pamschodt

 3 - Paste the copied tweet

 4 -Then add your own comment

Notifications

Under the Notifications Tab there are Notifications and Mentions.

Notifications tell you if you have been retweeted, if someone favorited your tweet, or if you have gained followers.

Mentions tell you if your handle (@pamschodt) has been tweeted.

I hope you’ve found this information on Twitter helpful. Please comment if you have questions, and follow me on Twitter @pamschodt.

Be sure to read the previous post about Twitter, Twitter School: Fun Facts.

Twitter School: 7 Fun Facts

1. Twitter has a powerful search engine. Try researching a topic, company, or individual.

2. Tweets are collected by the Library of Congress.

3. To “like” a tweet, click favorite.

4. Best practices recommend no more than 2 hashtags per tweet. A hashtag # before a word designates it a topic or keyword so the tweet will come up in a search of that word. 

5. Use a URL shortener to reduce the character count when you include hyperlinks in a tweet. Tweets are limited to 140 characters.

6. Are your incoming tweets overwhelming? Organize them into lists. Instead of following, add the person or organization to a list that you’ve created. At your convenience, review the list for their tweets. ( "Following" means you receive copies of all the tweets sent out by that individual or organization.)

7. #FF is a twitter tradition that means ”follow Friday,” and is a recommendation to follow a tweeter which tends to be posted on a Friday.

I recently attended “Twitter School” and was eager to share helpful pointers. I hope you’ve found this information interesting. I’ll share more social media tips soon. Oh, follow me @pamschodt on Twitter, of course.

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