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Twitter Only Gives Me 140 Characters!? What the Heck?<\/h2>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nTwitter is everywhere! What does it take to become the next Twitter superstar?<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nTwitter is a microblog. To become a Twitter superstar, you need to decide on what your niche will be, such as politics, WoW, Halo, or gender studies. You must also decide on your level of interaction: How often will you post? Some people post once or twice a day, whereas others post dozens of times per hour.\r\n\r\n\"Example\r\n

Figure 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Twitter limits you to 140 characters, so make every character count.<\/p>\r\nOne of the easiest ways to get more readers on Twitter is to provide people with your URL on Twitter (typically,\u00a0www.twitter.com\/[your<\/a>\u00a0username]<\/em>). Much like getting more readers for a blog, it takes time, but if you\u2019re diligent, your twitter followers will slowly grow. Well, that is if you have great information that others want to read!\r\n\r\nAnother easy way to gain a larger readership is to tweet, often. When others see you have good comments and posts, they\u2019ll want to follow you. Balanced with this, you should also have a profile that reflects your posting and your identity as \u201cthe writer\u201d of the tweets. So, having a username like Hotbabe4u probably won\u2019t get a lot of attention from a gender studies group.\r\n\r\nPeople like Twitter because the posts are short and to the point. It takes time and practice to get good at it, but you can learn a lot from studying other Twitter fans. How are they structuring their tweets? What types of tweets get the best response? And what ones don\u2019t? Figure out why. Think of a tweet kind of like the chorus to a song or a breath in a rap\u2014remember you only have 140 characters to make your statement, position your argument (in context AND make the argument), maybe relate it to others by using \u201creplies,\u201d \u201cdirect messages,\u201d and \u201chashtags.\u201d See the screenshot below for an example of a mention and a hashtag:\r\n\r\n\"Showing\r\n

Figure 4.<\/strong>\u00a0The @ and # have special meanings in Twitter; learn to use them effectively.<\/p>\r\nThe \u201c@culturecat\u201d is a mention. This means that when the owner of that Twitter account clicks her \u201cmentions\u201d button, she\u2019ll see this Tweet in the list. \u201c#c&w2011\u201d is a hashtag. A hashtag is a convenient way for people to make sure their Tweets are listed together. If you\u2019re at a conference or responding to a trendy topic, a hashtag can ensure you aren\u2019t lost in the shuffle.\r\n\r\nMost of us have heard how someone posts a tweet and it\u2019s misread or misunderstood by others. (Consider the times you might have had this happen with text messaging on your phone.) This happens more often than you think. It takes time to get the hang of tweeting. Try to think about how someone will read your tweet without knowing the context in which you wrote it.\r\n\r\nYou can also use Twitter as an information-sharing network. Some of the best tweets are those that direct followers to useful or fabulous content that they wouldn\u2019t otherwise have heard of (often using a url shortener like\u00a0b<\/a>itly<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0G<\/a>oogle URL Shortener<\/a>\u00a0to allow long links to fit into the short space allowed in a tweet). This makes a lot of sense\u2014after all, aren\u2019t you more likely to check out content shared by people you follow and trust, as opposed to whatever some big news network\u2019s website thinks you might find interesting?\r\n\r\nA lot of people like Twitter because of the thousands of apps you can use with it. There are apps for every mobile phone and tablet, apps to integrate your tweets into Facebook, and much, much more. There are also widgets that you can copy and paste into your blog site to display your tweets. If you can think of something you\u2019d like to do with Twitter, chances are there\u2019s an app for that.\r\n\r\nTweeting can be fun, but if you want to be popular, don\u2019t post stuff nobody wants to read. Does anybody really care what you had for breakfast? Also, it\u2019s more impressive if you can write succinctly (using few words) rather than resorting to texting conventions like u for you. The superstar Twitter users have mastered the art of saying more with less.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Twitter Only Gives Me 140 Characters!? What the Heck?<\/h2>\n
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Twitter is everywhere! What does it take to become the next Twitter superstar?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter is a microblog. To become a Twitter superstar, you need to decide on what your niche will be, such as politics, WoW, Halo, or gender studies. You must also decide on your level of interaction: How often will you post? Some people post once or twice a day, whereas others post dozens of times per hour.<\/p>\n

\"Example<\/p>\n

Figure 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Twitter limits you to 140 characters, so make every character count.<\/p>\n

One of the easiest ways to get more readers on Twitter is to provide people with your URL on Twitter (typically,\u00a0www.twitter.com\/[your<\/a>\u00a0username]<\/em>). Much like getting more readers for a blog, it takes time, but if you\u2019re diligent, your twitter followers will slowly grow. Well, that is if you have great information that others want to read!<\/p>\n

Another easy way to gain a larger readership is to tweet, often. When others see you have good comments and posts, they\u2019ll want to follow you. Balanced with this, you should also have a profile that reflects your posting and your identity as \u201cthe writer\u201d of the tweets. So, having a username like Hotbabe4u probably won\u2019t get a lot of attention from a gender studies group.<\/p>\n

People like Twitter because the posts are short and to the point. It takes time and practice to get good at it, but you can learn a lot from studying other Twitter fans. How are they structuring their tweets? What types of tweets get the best response? And what ones don\u2019t? Figure out why. Think of a tweet kind of like the chorus to a song or a breath in a rap\u2014remember you only have 140 characters to make your statement, position your argument (in context AND make the argument), maybe relate it to others by using \u201creplies,\u201d \u201cdirect messages,\u201d and \u201chashtags.\u201d See the screenshot below for an example of a mention and a hashtag:<\/p>\n

\"Showing<\/p>\n

Figure 4.<\/strong>\u00a0The @ and # have special meanings in Twitter; learn to use them effectively.<\/p>\n

The \u201c@culturecat\u201d is a mention. This means that when the owner of that Twitter account clicks her \u201cmentions\u201d button, she\u2019ll see this Tweet in the list. \u201c#c&w2011\u201d is a hashtag. A hashtag is a convenient way for people to make sure their Tweets are listed together. If you\u2019re at a conference or responding to a trendy topic, a hashtag can ensure you aren\u2019t lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n

Most of us have heard how someone posts a tweet and it\u2019s misread or misunderstood by others. (Consider the times you might have had this happen with text messaging on your phone.) This happens more often than you think. It takes time to get the hang of tweeting. Try to think about how someone will read your tweet without knowing the context in which you wrote it.<\/p>\n

You can also use Twitter as an information-sharing network. Some of the best tweets are those that direct followers to useful or fabulous content that they wouldn\u2019t otherwise have heard of (often using a url shortener like\u00a0b<\/a>itly<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0G<\/a>oogle URL Shortener<\/a>\u00a0to allow long links to fit into the short space allowed in a tweet). This makes a lot of sense\u2014after all, aren\u2019t you more likely to check out content shared by people you follow and trust, as opposed to whatever some big news network\u2019s website thinks you might find interesting?<\/p>\n

A lot of people like Twitter because of the thousands of apps you can use with it. There are apps for every mobile phone and tablet, apps to integrate your tweets into Facebook, and much, much more. There are also widgets that you can copy and paste into your blog site to display your tweets. If you can think of something you\u2019d like to do with Twitter, chances are there\u2019s an app for that.<\/p>\n

Tweeting can be fun, but if you want to be popular, don\u2019t post stuff nobody wants to read. Does anybody really care what you had for breakfast? Also, it\u2019s more impressive if you can write succinctly (using few words) rather than resorting to texting conventions like u for you. The superstar Twitter users have mastered the art of saying more with less.<\/p>\n

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Version 1.0,\u00a0June 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

Edited by Matt Barton, James Kalmbach, and Charles Lowe<\/em><\/p>\n

The Writing Spaces\u00a0Web Writing Style Guide<\/em>\u00a0is available under a Creative Commons\u00a0Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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