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W1.2 Getting Started on Twitter

Getting Started on Twitter

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"Twitter in Plain English" is an oldie-but-goodie for understanding why Twitter is useful. The videos below are created by Common Craft, @CommonCraft Links to an external site. or CommonCraft on Facebook Links to an external site..
   
read_icon_small.png   Twitter is one of those platforms that is always changing here and there, so for a Twitter Tutorial, I'm going to send you directly to the source.
   
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Twitter Tutorial: The Basics on How to Tweet, Reply, and Follow (by Social Magnets) Links to an external site.

 
   

Description: The video that follows is a short 6-min tutorial that I made (Feb 2013) to help new and existing Twitter users learn a bit more about navigating in the Twitter web application. Do you know where to find the code to embed a tweet? How about where to make a new list or follow a list? How do you view a tweetstream as a conversation? Learn it here.

 

Twitter Tutorial: Basic Navigation Links to an external site.
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Twitter Tutorial

There is some Twitter vocabulary you should definitely learn if you're not going to be called out as a n00b immediately. Here's an alphabetical list - all of the definitions can be found in the official Twitter Glossary Links to an external site.:

  • #
  • @
  • DM
  • FF
  • to follow
  • follower
  • following
  • handle
  • hashtag
  • HT
  • lists
  • mention
  • MT
  • OH
  • reply
  • a retweet
  • to retweet
  • RT
  • trending
  • to trend
  • a tweet
  • to tweet
  • Twitter
  • unfollow
  • URL
  • URL shortener

Note: There's a difference between a mention and a reply. Make sure you know which is which.