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If you’re comparatively new to Twitter, or even if you’re not, you may have noticed rather a few symbols drifting around here and there.
While they may seem like gibberish at first, they genuinely do convey sure things while you’re posting in Twitter.
So let’s take a look at galore of the more mutual Twitter symbols, what they are and how you may use them too.
The “@” symbol. This is very mutual and you’ll likely see humans using it each day when they make updates. This symbol is oftentimes found directly in front of another Twitter username. This means that the person who made this post is directly referring to that specific individual. So, for example, if you wanted to reference somebody that had the name “bluesky” then you would type @bluesky.
You may also hover over the post that you want to reference and you’ll see a link that says “Reply” which will mechanically fill their name for you; saving you the time of having to type it yourself.
The “#” tag. This is commonly referred to as the hashtag but on occasion is called merely the “pound symbol”. This references either an event that’s presently happening, or a specific topic. For instance, at sure times for the duration of the year, eZineArticles.com holds an event called “A Hundred Articles in One Hundred Days” and they’ve set up a specific hashtag (#HAHD) so that you may follow others who are also taking part in this event who use the specific hashtag that’s been set up for the event.
You may also head to http://search.twitter.com and enter in a hashtag to see who else is referring to it. And this holds unfeigned for nearly any topic you want to search on. Try searching on your own personal interests, for example: #gardening, #seo, #affiliatemarketing, #coffee, #cake and see what comes up.
RT – RT is the shortened version of “ReTweet”. You would use this if you wanted to tell your followers what someone else had said. So if you’re friend posted “Today we went to the pool.” and you wanted your friends to know with regards to it, you would enter in your status update “RT @yourfriendsname Today we went to the pool.”.
Now, Twitter has modified their program so that rather of having to type this all out (which you still may do by the way), all you need to do is hover your mouse over the persons post whom you want to retweet and click the “Retweet” link. Twitter will then ask you if you want to retweet that specific post to all of your followers and if you do, just click the “yes” button.
The “d” symbol. You don’t ofttimes see this one because not similar to a lot of things happening on Twitter, this is a private message that you send to someone.
Let’s say that you wanted to privately send a message to your friend and it’s not something that you want everyone who follows you to know. All you need to do is type in “d username yourmessage” (without the quotes). This will send a direct message to your friend and no one else but your friend will see it. Remember though, do NOT put the “@” symbol in front of the username; in this case, you don’t need to.
It’s also important to note that your friend MUST be following you in order for you to direct message them. You cannot send a direct message to somebody who is not following you back.
These are the most ordinarily employed Twitter symbols, but you’ll probably run throughout a few more that don’t have any peculiar meaning but that draw attention to the post itself but what’s listed here are the ones that quintessentially mean something on Twitter.
About the AuthorA veteran Web developer and publisher, Deltina Hay is a pioneer of social media and Web 2.0, specially as it applies to business. She has written innumerable articles and two books on the subject. An experienced instructor, her cognition of social media ideas and applying them in the real world make her writings galore of the most accessible in the industry.
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