A one page cheat sheet to help writers get started on Twitter.

1. A Tip Sheet Designed Specifically for Writers.
Twitter restricts all posts to 140 characters
Mentions: People who say your handle
Replies: People who respond to you
Retweets: Forwarded tweets
RT: A reply with the copied message and “RT”
Handle: Your twitter user name
Twitter Cheat Sheet
Tweet: A post on twitter
Followers: People who follow your feed
Reach: People outside of your followers who
saw your tweets due to retweets and replies
A Writer’s Guide Hashtag: A keyword or phrase designated with
the # symbol for easy tracking
Anatomy of a tweet Top Tweeps for Writers
Twitter posts are called tweets and are limited to 140 characters. If you want to get connected and
know what’s happening in
publishing follow:
Basic Tweet @RachelleGardner
@GalleyCat
Handle Name Bity Link @PWxyz
@AgentGame
@JaneFriedman
Top Hashtags for Writers
Writing
Retweet/RT #writing
#amwriting
#WIP
#WW (writer Wednesday)
Publishing
#pubtips
#dearauthor
#dearagent
User @Solete’s original post is shared as a reply with the “RT” to designate that #dearpublisher
@solete was the one who originally posted it. #books
#selfpublishing
#publishing
Hashtag
The hashtag allows people interested in #social media to see all related tweets. Shrink Links
Most links are too long for tweeting.
Instead use either Tiny.cc or Bit.ly
to create a shorter link to paste into
your tweet.
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