You've heard of Twitter right? It's the wildly popular microblogging service that has recently taken the Internet by storm.
Are you "on" Twitter but don't feel you know how to communicate using it? Never fear, follow these valuable tips and you'll be on your way to seasoned pro in no time..
Do a twitter search on a topic of your interest and tweet about it You'll get the twitter juices flowing if you start tweeting or writing about something you're interested in.
Seek out folks tweeting about your common interests and start following them and commenting on whatever they're saying.
Just respond as if you were talking with the person..
Direct Message (with a compliment) Socially speaking there's nothing like it when someone speaks to you directly and compliments you also.
With Twitter's direct-messaging (DM) function, you can send private messages to users.
However, you can only direct message Twitter users that are following you..
RT (Retweet) You can gain great twitter "karma" when you resend or "retweet" someone else's tweet.
Just make sure you give the original tweeter credit by putting "RT @name" in front of their tweet when you post it yourself..
Shrink Your URLs Its as common as breathing to share Url links in Twitter.
Instead of eating up your valuable 140 character limit with a long URL, use a URL-shortening service to shrink it.
Some of these include Tinyurl.
com, is.
gd, ow.
ly, and bit.
ly..
Use the @ Sign Simply place an @ sign in front of someone's Twitter name to create a reply or to give someone some Twitter "street cred".
A reply has to have the @ sign must be the first character of the tweet.
You can see replies to your own tweets, by clicking on @Replies from your profile page..
Try Searching For Friends The search feature on Twitter.
com can help you locate your friends, celebrities, or organizations, or any other topics that titillate you.
Then you can follow and communicate with those folks..
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