A beginners guide on how to use twitter, learn the terms and get involved. The presentation is catered to Cru employees looking to use social media for their ministries.
2. What isTwitter?
Twitter is a social media platform where
users share thoughts, news, information,
jokes and musings in 140 characters.
Twitter allows for inexpensive and global
communication.
3. TwitterTerms to Know
• Tweet – A 140-character
message
• Retweet (RT) – Sharing
someone’s tweet
• Feed – The stream of tweets
from your followers on your
home page
• Handle – Your username
• Mention (@) – A way to
include another user in a
tweet
• Direct Message (DM) – A
private, 140-character
message
• Hashtag (#) – The way to
denote a topic and help
those not following you to
discover your handle
5. Time to Follow
• Look up your friends and
follow them so Twitter’s
algorithm's can suggest
more followers
• Select like-minded
individuals and businesses
for content ideas and
useful information
• Follow to get your name
out there so people will
follow you back and enjoy
your content
7. Tricks of theTrade
• Weekends- Twitter
engagement on the
weekend is 17% higher than
weekday tweets.
• Business hours – The best
weekday times to Tweet are
during business hours
• Hashtags - Brands using the
search tool received two
times more engagement
than those without them.
• Photos - A picture helps with
replies, retweets and views
on Twitter.Business hours –
The best weekday times to
Tweet are during business
hours
• Action - Tweets that contain
"RT" or "ReTweet" receive
12 times higher shares than
those without a call to
action.