Twitter Tips For Beginners
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
For the uninitiated, Twitter can be an intimidating jumble of # symbols, RTs, DMs, @'s and other incomprehensible shorthand. A short guide of Twitter tips is useful to help newbies get the hang of the lingo so they can get the most out of the social media site.
For example, RT stands for "retweet", in which a user shares another tweeter's post, verbatim, while crediting the original tweeter. DM is a direct message, up to 140 characters in length that is sent only to another specific user,not to all of user's Twitter followers. A hashtag is created by using the # symbol ahead of a word or term, and is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages, and they may also be used to add color or personality to a tweet or to tie it to a broader topic.