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Are You Ready for Twitter 101? [Quiz]
Like many sites, Twitter has its own terms and procedures. If you are using Twitter often it doesn’t take long to get the hang of them. Here is a fun and easy little multi-choice for those new to world of Twitter.
1. What is a tweet?
- An alarm that you can set on the internet to wake you in the morning?
- A short post that you enter on the Twitter site?
- A bacon scented air freshener?
2. What is a retweet?
- An online place to get away from it all?
- An indication that someone has gone to your website?
- A way to repost someone else’s tweet?
3. You get an email saying that someone on twitter is following you – what should you do?
- Click on their name and follow them back?
- Call the police and tell them you are being stalked?
- Check out their profile and decide whether you want to follow them too.
4. Typing @ followed by a users name means that:
- The message can be seen by all users but is directed at that person?
- The message will go directly to their email address?
- You are sending a private message to that person on Twitter?
5. RT stands for:
- Resting Twitter – the person’s whose user name follows is taking a break?
- Retweet – the person whose user name follows was the original poster?
- Royal Tweeter- the person whose user name follows has a large number of posts and followers?
6. People use hashtags (#) to show:
- The word or link that follows is related to a particular keyword or topic that is being discussed?
- The word or link that follows can only be read and answered by followers?
- The word or link that follows leads to the Tweeter’s own website?
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(b) A post on Twitter is known as a tweet. Tweets can be no more than 140 characters long. There are easy tools you can download to help shorten links and messages.
(c) A retweet is a good way to let other people know you found someone else’s tweet interesting. They may also reciprocate by retweeting your tweet/s.
(c) It’s not a great idea to just follow anyone else. It doesn’t take long to check out a person’s profile and a few tweets. Decide for your self.
(a) Using the @ symbol also ensures that the person will see the message. Just be aware that it is not a private message, any one else can see it too.
(b) Putting RT a space and then @username followed by their original tweet (or part of) gives credit to the tweeter and they will see it too.
(a) This can be a useful way to follow along on a particular topic or keyword. Hashtags are also a good way to search for keywords or topics that interest you.
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Thank you Maia, Definitely good for the complete beginner.
I thought it may change things around a bit, something different you know
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I can read about this stuff all day long, thanks for the write up my friend!