The Very Basic Twitterisms of Twitter

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Write your message in 140 characters and press update http://heidiallen.id.au

Add a picture (avatar) and a bio that describes you and your interests http://heidiallen.id.au

If you’re on LinkedIn or Facebook, or Blog, add that too so peole know who you are http://heidiallen.id.au

To ﬁnd people click on the search tab top right and press follow http://heidiallen.id.au

Or start by following those your friends are following http://heidiallen.id.au

This means you receive updates from the people you follow http://heidiallen.id.au

To reply use the @ before the name of person or use the arrow to the right of their last tweet http://heidiallen.id.au

A Direct Message (DM) is a private message that no- one else sees. You can only DM people who are following you back. http://heidiallen.id.au

Favourite your best tweets by clicking the star - so you keep them in your favourites to go back to

A # means you can label (or tag) a topic and search for mentions eg #origami videos http://heidiallen.id.au

or start a new topic for people to follow by using a #tag eg at an event when lots of people are tweeting http://heidiallen.id.au

To search for a topic press search bottom right, or search trending topics (what is being discussed most at that moment) http://heidiallen.id.au

Twitter applications can be found at: http:// twitter.com/downloads or listen to twitter recommendations in your twitter stream http://heidiallen.id.au

Some of the shorthand: Apps: Applications Avatar: Your twitter picture DM: Direct Message IMHO: In my humble opinion Ktxbai: OK Thanks Bye LOL: Lough out Loud LMAO: Laughing My Ass Off RT: Re-tweet Srlsly: Seriously! http://heidiallen.id.au

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At ﬁrst.... ...you feel like the new kid at school. Everyone else knows each other. Keep at it, ﬁnd some people you are interested in. Chances are they have something to learn from you too. Thanks to productivedreams.com for some of the twitter birds http://heidiallen.id.au

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The Very Basic Twitterisms of Twitter

by Heidi Allen on Jun 08, 2009

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