Twitter cheat sheet

Twitter Cheat Sheet When someone mentions you in a Tweet Example: Great Article about @LisaShalett in @Forbes about her views on setting goals Your Options:

Retweet 1.

Click retweet, then click tweet

Retweet with comments: 1.

click retweet

2. add comments in the text box

Add : Loved this piece about evergreen content especially because of the ever advancing breathless pace of digital platforms!

When someone Mentions you in a tweet because they liked what you shared: Example:

Your options:

Click reply Reply to Limited audience (those who follow April AND You: Users will see replies in their Home timeline if they are following both the sender and recipient of the update. Otherwise, they won't see the reply unless they visit the sender's Profile page.

@TheRudinGroup Thanks. Glad you liked it! or Reply to broader audience (your whole audience) 1. Start the tweet with part of the sentence rather than the username So glad you liked it @TheRudinGroup!

2. Add a character before the username .@TheRudinGroup Thanks!. Glad you liked it!

Like the post

This sends a message to @Username (April in this example) that appears in her notifications and lets her know that you saw and liked what she said

Send a Direct Message Direct Messages are the private side of Twitter. You can use Direct Messages to have private conversations with Twitter users about Tweets and other content. ​ Direct messages can only be received from people you follow unless you enable direct messages from anyone in your Twitter account settings.

Direct Message From Hootsuite 1.

Locate a tweet from the user in your stream

2.

Hover over the envelope icon at top right of the tweet

3.

When you click the Direct Message icon, it will populate your Tweet box with “d username”

4.

Follow “d username” with your message

Some accounts, particularly businesses on Twitter, have enabled a setting to receive Direct Messages from anyone. You can send a Direct Message to these users even if they don’t follow you, however, as a default, you can only Direct Message those who follow you.

You will not see a reply box if you are not able to send a Direct Message to the other participant.

This might happen if the other participant has unfollowed you, blocked you or has flagged the conversation with you.

Tweet Structure: In tweet structure it may help to begin with your natural language response and look for ways to shorten/abbreviate and replacing names with @usernames. In many cases, you can omit punctuation that is not integral to the reader’s understanding of the tweet.

For example: In real life you might say to someone.

“Thanks so much for sending this article Mary Swanson, I found it interesting that many women are prevented from gaining board seats because they don’t leverage the power of their networks as effectively as their male contemporaries” As a public tweet, this might become: Failing to leverage networks leads to huge gender gap in #women #board seats HT@MarySW As a Direct Message you might say Thanks so much for sending the Women & Boards article @MarySW, Would love to grab lunch and talk more about it. Email me!

Direct Messages, Replies: Hi ​ @​ aturnermoffitt, Thanks for sharing your piece on Wealth & Women

@Username, So great meeting you at the @WomenintheCity event, I will send you that @92Y event info I mentioned Thanks for sending @Username! I loved the article.

Thanks for reaching out @Username, I will check out the article Would love to know more about how you see us collaborating @username Interesting perspective on Boards & Quotas @Username, it is a complex issue!

Retweet Comments/context (add this when you retweet to give your own context to someone’s retweet): In these cases, your character count won’t need to include the RT@username….. portion of the tweet since you’ll be retweeting by using the retweet button within Twitter or Dashboard tool (Hootsuite, Buffer, etc.)

Great article to understand the power of women board members! #Womenandwealth RT@username Women and wealth, the Real story <link> Thanks for writing this @username (author), I was shocked to learn only 14% of startups have female mentors RT@Forbes The gender problem in startup culture <link> Living in #NYC has challenges, but what a wonderful place 2 b w/access to places like @metmuseum <link> (or retweet)

Glossary of Terms/ abbreviations: RT: Retweet MT: Modified retweet: Use this when you are retweeting someone but changing their original tweet in some way. Sometimes to shorten, sometimes to eliminate unnecessary tags or usernames or focus on the specific part of their tweet on which you would like to comment. Perhaps you want to paraphrase a tweet originally written by someone else HT: Hat tip: Giving credit to someone for an article, quote, image or thought Via: Another way to give credit to how you found some information or article ICYMI: In case you missed it DYK: Did you know HOTD: Headline of the Day