New Twitter users sometimes have a hard time figuring out some of the ins and outs of Twitter communication etiquette. For example, a very nice young woman and Life Coach, Carolann Jones (follow her at http://www.twitter.com/coachcarolann) was sharing an event she was participating in sponsored by Wealth, Success and Women.
Carolann tweeted about the event as follows:
Listening to call hosted by Heather Jumah-How to Set Up A Six Figure Blog, Free Teleseminar with Joel Williams the Blog Tech Guy.
Now I blog and I’m interested in a Six Figure Blog so I might be interested in Joel’s stuff and anybody who puts on cool events like this I should know about but, apart from Replying to (@CoachCarolann) or Direct Messaging ( D CoachCarolann) Carolann, I don’t have an easy way to find out more about Heather and Joel. And, if Carolann’s stepped away from Twitter or is busy, she may miss my tweet all together.
Using the @Replies Feature in Twitter
So, to make it easier for others to track fellow tweeters that you mention in one of your posts then all Carolann (and you) have to do is substitute names for Twitter names and precede these with the aforementioned @ sign. Her message now becomes:
Listening to call hosted by @HeatherJumah – How to Set Up A Six Figure Blog, Free Teleseminar with @BlogTechGuy.
The @twitterusername protocol creates a link between your post and that user’s Twitter page and accomplishes two things:
It allows people who follow your posts to easily follow the people you mention thus adding even more value to your twitter post AND- It shows your Tweeps (Twitter Peeps) some love because when you use the @twitterusername protocol to identify your tweeps in a post then your post also shows up in their Twitter feed and it’s stored in the @Replies section of their Twitter home page.
When we use their @twitterusername in a post we’re expressing our gratitude for the value that they have provided to us and, after all, we all appreciate a good “shout out” now and again.
But I Don’t Know if They Tweet
Don’t know somebody’s Twitter identity? Use the Find People menu on your Twitter screen to find existing Twitter account holders or to invite people you know from other social networks or by email.
The easiest way, if you don’t know their Twitter name is to guess. To construct this little Twitter Tutorial, I guessed that Heather Jumah‘s name might be ‘heatherjumah‘. I guessed correctly. I thought that maybe Joel would use his name. Nope, but I knew he was the Blog Tech Guy and sure enough his Twitter name is ‘blogtechguy‘. It’s not always this easy but in this case it was.
1. Click on Find People 2. Click on the Find on Twitter tab 3. Enter a person's name or tag line
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