TWITTER: A guide for posting

WHAT IS TWITTER?

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.

TWITTER TERMS 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 (@CruTweets) – 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

HOW TO BEGIN

Log onto www.Twitter.com to beginLog onto www.Twitter.com to begin

HOW TO BEGIN

Create an account and remember your User Name, or “handle”, is what everyone will see when using Twitter.

Create an account and remember your User Name, or “handle”, is what everyone will see when using Twitter.

HOW TO BEGIN

• Look up your friends and follow them so Twitter’s algorithms 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

• Look up your friends and follow them so Twitter’s algorithms 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

HOW TO BEGIN

Click the “Compose Tweet” icon to create text or attach a photo or graphic.

Click the “Compose Tweet” icon to create text or attach a photo or graphic.

TRICKS OF THE TRADE

•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.

• Action - Tweets that contain "RT" or "ReTweet" receive 12 times higher shares than those without a call to action.

THANK YOU

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