1. Twitter
Tutorials
By Jay-Nguyen
Follow Me @phongv

2. Contents
1 What is Twitter?
2 Twitter & Seadev
3 Key Twitter Jargon
4 Q&A

3. 1 What is Twitter?
Twitter is an online social networking service and
microblogging service that enables its users to send
and read text-based posts of up to 140
characters, known as "tweets".
It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and
launched that July.
The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with
over 140 million active users as of 2012, generating
over 340 millions tweets daily and handling over 1.6
billion search queries per day.

4. 2 Twitter & Seadev?

5. 3 Key Twitter Jargon
a. Tweet: A ‘Tweet’ is your 140
character message you send.
b. Your Timeline: This is your
Twitter homepage, it shows
you all of the messages
(Tweets) from the people you
have decided to follow with
the most recent first.

6. c. Follow: If you are interested
in reading someone’s ‘Tweets’,
you ‘follow’ them and then their
updates appear in your timeline.
d. Followed: This is the amount
of people that have chosen to
see your ‘Tweets’ in their
timeline.

7. e. @ reply: Originally on Twitter there was no way to
send a message to anyone, but after a short while it was
obvious that people wanted to be able to reply to
interesting ‘Tweets’ they had seen so the @ reply was
introduced. You use the @ sign followed by the Twitter
username of the person you want to reply to. This is a
public reply and appears in the users timeline even if
they don’t follow you. (@replies are also known as
@messages or @mentions)

8. f. RT (Retweets): ‘Retweeting’ is simply the act of
reposting someone else’s interesting ‘Tweet’ – if you
have found it interesting then it is likely your followers will
find it interesting too.

9. g. shorturl:
With only 140 characters to say your piece, if you want to
add a link into the mix, it can sometimes mean you only
have a couple of words remaining to explain it. A short URL
is where an extended URL like:
http://www.fusingcreativity.com/marketing-
services/coaching/ becomes: http://fusing.so/kiGPZZ
Both point to the same webpage but the latter has
significantly less characters. I use a service called
www.bit.ly with a personal shortening domain
(www.fusing.so) but using their domain is just as good.

10. h. # Hash tags: are used to add context to your
‘Tweet’ within a theme or event for example. You
may use #wimbledon if talking about Wimbledon or
#miltonkeynes if your tweet is relevant to the
Milton Keynes area. Using hash tags is important
as people use these as search terms and it means
that your tweet will appear in more than just your
followers timelines.

11. i. DM Direct Message: A
personal message sent to you or
from you to another user. Only
the sender and receiver can see
this message but it still has the
restrictions of 140 characters.
You can only send a ‘DM’ to
users that are following you. Also
known as a Direct Tweet.

12. 4 Q&A

13. References
1. twodegreesmarketing.com (2012). ‘Social
Media Terminology’, Two Degrees Marketing
[Online]. Available at:
http://www.twodegreesmarketing.com/resour
ces/social-media-information/