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How to Receive Tweets with Your Cellphone
Many twitterers use Twitter almost exclusively on their mobile phones. Text messaging (SMS) is the most basic way to access Twitter via your cellphone. In addition to sending tweets as SMS messages from [more…]
Use Twitter Shorthand
Because of the 140-character limit for tweets, people often abbreviate common words and phrases on Twitter. The following table has abbreviations, or Twitter shorthand, that you see often. You will most [more…]
How to Use Twitter's @replies in Your Tweets
One of Twitter's more powerful conversational features is @replies (or @mentions). Tweets that are @replies are public and visible to all Twitter users from your Twitter page, but they are directed specifically [more…]
How to Search and Read Your Twitter Tweets
You can see what you've tweeted on Twitter in several ways. To see a running list of your past tweets, start with your own Twitter profile. To do so, click Profile at the top to open your Profile page, [more…]
How to Tweet on Twitter
The entire premise of Twitter is to answer the question "What's happening?" in 140 characters or less. To tweet, type a message in the What's Happening? text box, keeping under the 140-character limit, [more…]
Twitter Etiquette for Beginners
Many new Twitter users want to know what the rules are, or whether Twitter has standard protocol and etiquette. Beyond Twitter's standard Terms of Service, Twitter etiquette is simple: Be genuine and non-deceptive [more…]
How to Insert Links into Tweets
Almost all Twitter users incorporate links into their tweets on a regular basis. You can insert links to Web pages, blog entries, or even other tweets. The toughest part of including these links is getting [more…]
How to Use Twitter Shorthand Codes
The more you use Twitter, the more you're going to want to find quicker ways to tweet. Conveniently, Twitter has included a number of shorthand codes that you can use to perform almost any action directly [more…]
