Useful Twitter Tips For Beginners
To share links, shorten URLs
Alright, some of the web pages might have long URLs and you will be wondering, how on Earth can I squeeze those urls on a micro-blogging system that only allows 140 characters?! Fret no more. There are a lot of free tools to shrink or shorten the URLs so that you can tweet it within the limited characters allowed. The popular ones are bit.ly, is.gd, tiny.cc, ow.ly more twitter followers
To reply, use @ sign
So, if you want to create a reply to someone on twitter or send a message to that person publicly and you do not mind others knowing what you write for him/her, remember to put @ in front of the person’s Twitter username. For instance @username, meet you tonight!
To direct message, use DM
If you want to send a private message to Twitter users, you can locate this DM function in your Twitter control panel. However, do keep in mind that you can only direct message Twitter users who are following you only.
