


Don't use hashtags as "extensions" of what you're posting.If you want to use hashtags, pick a few and stick with those. Slapping ten hashtags into a tweet looks spammy and amateurish. Tagging a word in the middle of a sentence works just fine. You don't have to list hashtags at the end of a tweet. You can include hashtags anywhere in your tweet.

Try to find a middle ground - something like #LoveMyHusky works well. On the other hand, #ThisIsMyDogAndShesSoBeautiful is way too distinct and clunky. If you're sharing a picture of your dog, tagging it with #Dog is a bit too broad to be effective. If you're live-tweeting the season premiere of Doctor Who, look for a hashtag like #DWPremiere on-screen.
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Many TV shows, video games, movies, and other media add official hashtags to their advertising. You should use them to self-categorize your tweets to make them easier to find and aggregate. Using Hashtags ProperlyĪs mentioned earlier, hashtags are woefully understood. You can include an anywhere else in a tweet to Mention an account and it will show as normal to your followers. But if you want your followers to see the tweet, Twitter convention is to start with a period to bypass this.įor example, the top tweet will only be seen by those who follow both me and The bottom tweet will show to is a cool site, but nobody will know I said this because I started my tweet with an outdid itself for Game of the Year with the release of Mario Odyssey. This is fine if you're, say, contacting a company for help. Thus, tweets that start with aren't visible to your followers, unless they follow the mentioned account also. Plus, it was tough to keep track of who was talking to who.Ī final note on replies: if you start a tweet with an Twitter assumes that you're trying to talk to only that account. With several users in the conversation, you'd only have a few characters to send your message. Twitter made this change because, in the old days, replies included everyone's in the tweet. A QT shows up as your own tweet but links the original below it. Retweeted tweets show up in your timeline as coming from the original account, but say retweeted above them. Or if you prefer, you can Quote Tweet (QT) by adding your own thoughts on top of the original. When you click the RT button, you can simply click Retweet to repost it without any additional commentary. You might RT a useful guide that you found, a joke that you found funny, or any number of other tweets you want to share. Retweeting (RT) allows you to repost a tweet to your followers so they can see it too. People following you may see your reply along with the original in their timelines, even if they don't follow the account you replied to. Anyone viewing your tweet will see that it's a reply. Depending on the original tweeter's settings, they may see your reply as a notification. This lets you send a tweet in direct response to the original.
