So now that you have some of the basic knowledge of twitter, let me help you with some of the lingo that you will see while you are on there.
RT- Retweet. Use a RT when you like what someone has said, or would like to repeat it to your followers. It gives credit where credit is due. As you will see above Reporterssource is retweeting mysterymother.
# – this is called a hashtag. It’s like a label. It’s used on quite a few of the trending topics- see #iranelection and #notagoodlook. It is also used for twitter parties so you can easily find what other people are saying that have joined the twitter party (using tweetgrid, or something similar). An example of this would be #jourchat. #jourchat is a group of journalists and PR personal that meet weekly at a set time. The most popular hashtag you will see is #FollowFriday or #FF. On Fridays, you can recommend people to follow- give their user handle, why we should follow them and place #FollowFriday in the tweet.
Hopefully these twitter tips are a big help and we hope to see you on twitter. If you have any additional tips to share, please leave them in the comments.
