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Demystifying Twitter 2 - Understanding Terminology

 

Follow

When you follow someone, you’re staying in touch through their tweets. Their followers number increases, and your following number increases by one. If you have a high number of followers, you’ve very popular. If your following number is large, you’re interested in lots of people. You need an account to follow…

 

You can either set-up a private or public account…

Public is more popular, whereby anyone can follow-you.

 

Some people set-up private accounts, where you have to approve followers’ requests before they can read your tweets. This could be useful for a private information network that you only want to share with a controlled group.

 

Tweet

A message of up to 140 characters, hopefully containing something of interest for your followers. This could be a statement, quote, news, or a weblink to something more, such as a photo or blog

e.g. @ggfit tweets: nutrition & weight loss tips : new blog post http://ow.ly/t

 

ReTweet (RT)

To take someone else’s tweet and tweet it yourself. You could repeat their tweet, but it’s better etiquette to mention them with RT, and add comments, if there’s room in the 140 characters. e.g. @GetFitWithSara retweets the above Love tip #3 RT @ggfit nutrition & weight loss tips : new blog post http://ow.ly/t

 

Mention

To mention another user in a tweet. You don’t have to follow each other

e.g. @ggfit tweets about an SBN networking meeting with Dominique

I’m at the sbn @biz_network with @Dominique55uk

 

Direct Messages (d)

A private message sent direct to another person. Can only send to someone who follows you. e.g. @ggfit sends a direct message to @GetFitWithSara d GetFitWithSara Good Luck today, see you at the next sbn

 

Hashtags

To flag a topic or keyword in a tweet for others to notice or search for

e.g. @ggfit tweets about a meeting in WestHampstead
I’m going to the small business #network in #WestHampstead

 

Twitter Tools

twitter.com is a great place to get started, but there are a plethora of tools that help you to tweet more effectively. Current favourites are hootsuite, tweetdeck, echofon, search.twitter.com, socialoomph, and klout.

 

Get in touch if you’d like some pointers, and please follow us on twitter @GGFit and @guygriff for more info, and to see what we’re up to

 

wpbeb41f01_0f.jpg About Guy Griffiths:

A regular at SBN’s Muswell Hill and West Hampstead meetings, Guy is a coach and mentor working with individuals, small businesses and gyms on client acquisition and retention and social media management.

 

T: 020 7617 7531 / 0797 1618 912      E: guy@ggfit.co.uk      W: www.ggfit.co.uk     T: @ggfit

 

 

Small Business Network:  To contact us, please email us at info@smallbusinessnetwork.biz or call us weekdays from 9am-5pm on 020 8883 7210