WHAT IS TWITTER AND WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Twitter is a web application belonging to the group of so-called social networks. This microblogging application allows people to publish their tweets; a tweet is a short phrase or comment of no more than 140 characters at a time, and can include URLs (web addresses) related to the comment.

What is Twitter and what is it used for?
DIGITAL MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Lunes, 14 de Marzo de 2011

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In 2011, Twitter incorporated the possibility of adding a photo accompanying the tweet. Currently it is said that the majority of journalists prefer Twitter because of the rapid diffusion with which a news or comment spreads.

According to various topics of interest, a Twitter user will be able to follow other users, and it will be stored in a section called "Following" which will allow you to see each tweet made by that person or company. In the same way there is a section that informs the user who is following them, the primary objective of Twitter is to publish content of interest and manage to attract the largest number of followers possible.

The person to register will need an email account and specify a unique user name in the world, in this way and accompanying it with a photo of the user plus a small extract of who the user is, other users will be able to identify who published the tweet. Registration is very intuitive and easy to achieve.

Twitter has many peculiarities among them we find:

RETWEETS

It consists of republishing what another user has published, spreading the message on a large scale.

FAVORITES

Although Twitter allows you to see the history of your own tweets, you may be interested in saving relevant tweets from other users to be able to view them when you you want.

SLASHTAGS AND TRENDING TOPIC (TT)

Slashtags are used to filter results. It allows you to use some predefined ones, you can create your own filters or use those of other users. They also introduce us to semantic searches, the great topic of fashion. To use it, just add the pound sign (#) followed by the phrase. It serves to categorize a tweet indicating what it is about and generally it is very likely that the user interested in that topic can read it.

When a specific topic is used by many users and becomes popular, it is said to be "Trending Topic", because a large percentage of the Twitter community is mentioning that particular topic. Twitter users refer to it as TT. In short, it is the "topic of the moment."

Recently Twitter announced that the TT will soon be by area and not worldwide as was happening.

LISTS

Thanks to these lists you can classify the people you follow by groups such as friends, family, work colleagues, colleagues or by topics such as technology, video games, current events; so that it is easier for you to follow all its updates. What's more, you can also make your lists public and allow people to follow them, in order to automatically become a follower of a group of Twitter users with a similar theme.

Relate Twitter to Facebook

Currently, Twitter has a trust system with Facebook. To configure it, simply specify the Facebook username and password, which allows, when using this function, to publish on your Facebook wall each tweet that is made as if it were a common Facebook post. facebook.

Relate Twitter to Linkedin

To be able to publish from Twitter on the linkedin wall, just add the slashtag #in at the end of our tweet

Reflection

Twitter is one of the most powerful social networks on the market. A single tweet can be seen by millions of people at the same time, so you have to be very careful when posting a tweet, such as writing correctly and taking the utmost care not to offend anyone.

A tweet can generate many visits to our website or gain a large number of followers. On the other hand, a misstep can make us a detestable person, causing us to lose most of our followers. As the popular saying goes, "he who talks a lot makes a lot of mistakes." The problem is that if you don't "talk," you don't gain followers. I personally believe that, like everything in life, you have to find and achieve a balance.

Source of Information: Lionel Pairuna

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