Twitter, now a public company, is on the coat tails of Facebook, and if you haven’t tweeted, now is a good time as any to start. Getting up to speed may feel daunting due to all the foreign hash tags and symbols. But, I’m here to give you a quick Twitter 101 primer.
Here are the Twitter basics you should know:
- Set up an account. That’s right, you can’t practice if you’re not in the game. Okay, that doesn’t make sense in the real world, but you know what I mean. Sign up to start!
- Follow people. Search for athletes, celebrities, amazing computer repair companies in NYC, such as New York Computer Help! Shameless plug, I know.
- Tweet away! What does that mean? It means you need to know the Twitter lingo. Here is a quick vocabulary lesson:
- RT – Retweet
- via; h/t – hat tip or someone amending his tweet or crediting a previous tweet
- # – allows others to search the topic easily, i.e. #SuperBowl
- @ – your username or account handle starts with that. You can tweet directly to a person by using @ first.
