1. Twitter Conventions

2. • Very popular - 500 million registered users in the year 2012
• Tweet – short status
• Character limit (140)
• Hash tags - categorises the status by topic
• List of popular “trending” topics
• Direct messages
• Retweets – sharing content
• Following and followers
• Activities
• @ and usernames
• Notifications
• Communicate worldwide
• Very fast way to find out what is happening
• Eye witness accounts
• False reports

3. 1.Mouse hovered over
hash tag and clicked.
2.Once clicked it
leads on to this page
full of tweets with
the hash tag.
Hash tags categorizes the status by topic. So when people use hash tags, they can click
on the hash tag and it will lead them on to a page which contains tweets from twitter
users around the world who have also used the same hash tags. This is useful and
beneficial because it enables twitter users to see other peoples opinions and thoughts
on the topic which is being used as a hash tag.

4. Retweets allows you to share content to all your followers. Once someone Retweets a
tweet it will appear on all their followers timeline. This is extremely useful and beneficial
as it allows more people to see and read the particular tweet. This is useful for everyone
but in particular twitter news pages, if there is breaking news and the news account
tweets it, the Retweets will enable it to reach a wider audience worldwide and will enable
the news to go around the media extremely fast.
1.Click Retweet button
2.It then appears on
my timeline and on
all my followers
timeline