Twitter

When you start using Twitter, there are certain points that you should keep in mind. After realizing the significance of Twitter as a social networking site, you should know certain things after registering for Twitter. Read about that here. Now, that you have the basics, here are some terms you need to know in order to make use of Twitter in the most efficient way.

1. Reply (@): Twitter features an exceptional replying feature. Whenever a person’s name is leaded by a @ symbol, it indicates that the sentence (tweet) following them is directed at them. So if you are using Twitter on the Web, which you should not be (talk about that more later), and you want to reply to someone, simply type @ and then their name, then type the reply. 
2. DM (D): This is a term you are sure to see in people who does Tweeting. It’s the abbreviated form of Direct Message. This is alike email for all intents and purposes. It acts like a Twitter inbox. Unlike replies and regular tweets, DMs are completely private. This feature is usually used if you desire to write something privately to someone, even more if you are writing something to your followers. Try to stick to DMs if you are replying more than twice to someone.
3. Retweet (RT): If someone tweets something that is interesting for you and you feel it would interest your readers, you retweet it for your readers as well. This actually quotes that person’s tweet and gives them the credit, so that the people can see the tweet and then choose to follow that person. It is almost like forwarding an email.
4. Hashtag (#): Hashtags are simple things in Twitter, it enhances the Twitter experience. They facilitate easy categorization of tweets for effectual future searching. Suppose you are tweeting about the iPhone, you simply need to insert a # before the word iPhone. Anyone who then searches hashtags.org or Twitter search, for the #iPhone term, will get your tweet as well as all tweets on the subject. 
5. Twitpic: This tool is for sharing pictures with your followers. You can upload a picture to Twitpic, uncheck the box that tweets it automatically for you, copy the URL, write something about the picture and then paste the URL for your followers to see. 
6. URL Shorteners: Twitter only allows you 140 characters; therefore this is the most effective way of tweeting if you want to share a link with your followers that is 70 characters long. This tool enables you to share a long link with your followers and also write down your thoughts about the link you are sharing.
7. Tweetdeck: Tweetdeck is the most popular 3rd party Twitter application out there. Tweetdeck automates all the above points in a very simple interface. You can reply, retweet, DM, shorten a URL, and share a Twitpic without ever leaving Tweetdeck.
8. TwitterFon: Twitterfon is the most popular iPhone app for Twitter. Twitterfon notifies you of new tweets, replies, and DMs.
9. Topify: Topify enables you to reply to a DM via email and the vital part is that the developers actually listen to customer feedback and improve the services accordingly and over and over again.
10. Wefollow: This is the most effective way of finding people to follow. It is a Twitter directory depending on tags people give themselves.

As you can see, Twitter is a vast arena to understand and utilize. When you start twitting as a beginner, be sure to look into these points and enhance your Twitter experience.

Twitter

As internet has become the call for the day, you cannot deny the usage of Twitter for social networking whatsoever. Twitter is immensely useful as an efficacy for joining in the global discussion and also for the purpose of sharing thoughts, information, opinions, and media. However, if you are a novice at this, there’s also a curved learning path ahead you. For many people who just start with Twitter, the site does not immediately give proper results and it can be a bit discouraging. 

This article will discuss those five steps for new users that if followed will make their experience in Twitter more enjoyable from the beginning itself. New users can enjoy both third party services and built-in tools that aid them to work on Twitter work, and this article highlights some of the best tools.

Firstly, find the people with whom you are already acquainted. It will be much easier once you start conversing with the people you already know. People whom you know personally will talk about something that interests you, thereby increasing the value input. The best tool on Twitter for new users is the Find Friends on Other Networks tool, which lets people, allow Twitter to scan their other network contacts like AOL, Yahoo!, or Gmail address books and see if anyone they know is on Twitter. Once you have combined your address book, Twitter will start locating and suggesting users to follow that you already know the external world of Twitter. When you follow up with those friends, they will receive an alert message.

The beginners can also look into the third party Twitter people search engines like Tweepz. This offers more detailed and easily scannable search results than Twitter’s own built in contact search. Another way to find friends is to look into the Twitter Facebook app.

The next step is to search for like minded users. Once you talk about the topics that you are interested in; you will actually start enjoying it. After you are fed with a stream of tweets on topics that you actually care about will make Twitter more useful and interesting for you. One tool for the novice Twitterers to find like-minded users is Twitter Searchtweetzi Twitter Search. It is a built-in search engine that allows the users to search for others who are talking about the things they are interested in by searching for keywords.

Thankfully, there are some third party services that the beginners can take help from the like-minded users to follow. Twitter directories Twellow and WeFollow conduct Twitter users based on topic, and are great places to search other users who will frequently tweet about interesting things. There are other third party sites like Twubble and Twitterel that attempt to give people friend suggestions on Twitter, which are based on the friends of your friends. 

Search for local users, especially those you live in your locality. The service will get much more useful. You will get updates about local meet ups, local issues, and connect with people in your city. There are some web-based Twitter clients that actually make Twitter much easier to use, as well, such as Mixero and PeopleBrowsr. If you are a mobile user, you can also download applications to help them get more out of Twitter; those users who tweet on an iPhone especially have plenty of options. Thus, Twitting is undoubtedly an interesting option; provided you know the ways of making it so!