Twitter for Your Small Business – Part II.V: Terminologies
Posted by | Tommy Liu | November 6, 2009 | What are Your Thoughts?
I realized that I failed to include Twitter terminologies (twerminologies) to the last post, Twitter for Your Business – Part II: Getting Started (hence the fail whale), so, here’s an entire post dedicated to it (Twitter terms, not the fail whale – but maybe later):
@Reply – A direct way to comment or reply to another user. By placing @ before their username, that user will be notified that you have mentioned them in your tweet.
@YourUserName – A list of tweets that has mentioned you.
Direct Message/DM – A private message sent from one Twitter user to another. You can only send a direct message to a user who is following you.
Favorites – A list of tweets that you have favorited.
Feed – The stream of tweets from people you are following on your Homepage.
Followers – Users that have subscribed to have your tweets show on their feed; these people are following you.
Following – Users that you have subscribed to have their tweets show on your feed; you are following these people.
Follow Friday – A weekly keyword occurrence when a Twitter user mentions other users worth following. This can usually be spotted on the Trending Topics on Fridays, and occasionally spelled differently.
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Example: #FollowFriday @spotzero @gettingspotted.
Hashtags (#) – Hashtags are used to categorize tweets. You can add keywords to your tweets to make it easier for search. Simply add a hash (#) to your keyword in your tweet.
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Example: #LosAngeles The traffic is terrible, but at least I get a good view of the Hollywood sign.
Home Page – The main page of Twitter and where you’ll find your feed and Trending Topics.
Profile Page – The page listing all of the tweets you have posted. It is what other users see when they click on your username.
Retweet/RT – Sharing a tweet you saw with all of your followers. If a user tweets something interesting that you want to share with your followers, you copy and paste their tweet and put RT and the @user in
front of the tweet. This way you cite your source and give credit where credit is due.
Trending Topics – A list of the ten most used keywords at that moment on Twitter as discussion points.
Tweeple – A combination of Twitter and People, referring to Twitter users. Synonyms: Twitterers, Tweeters and Twitizens among others.
Tweeps – Your Twitter friends.
Tweets (aka updates) – Content (message, links, pictures, etc.) that you post onto Twitter for your followers to see. A tweet can also be used as a verb. Example: I will tweet about that event later. I just tweeted you an hour ago.
Twitterverse (aka Twitosphere) – The Twitter community.
Twoosh – A perfect 140 character tweet.
Okay, next post, Suggestions, Tips and Notes for sure. Subscribe to the right.
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