Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California. The company operated the social networking service Twitter and previously the Vine short video app and Periscope livestreaming service.
The icons reply, retweet, like, and follow normally show up under tweets. • The backward arched arrow is the reply icon, use the icon to reply to another Twitter user or tweet. • The box made out of two arrows is the retweet button.
A hashtag—written with a # symbol—is used to index keywords or topics on Twitter. This function was created on Twitter, and allows people to easily follow topics they are interested in. Using hashtags to categorize Tweets by keyword.
#Hashtags are used when talking about something – a topic or keyword. Using a hashtag creates a link that leads to a page displaying an aggregated list of posts about that thing. On the other hand, @Mentions are used when talking to or about someone (the user account of a person, brand, group, etc.).
someone, i.e. adding a dot or a period before the username. Here's the difference: If you just reply with @username the tweet will only go to people who follow both you AND that person. If you add a dot before the username, it'll go to all of your followers.
Periods would allow everyone to see the tweet whether they follow @username or not. As a workaround, people began putting periods in front. “[email protected] is so cool” was a quick way to bypass Twitter making it a reply, and it would allow everyone to see the tweet whether they follow @username or not.
Twitter vs. Threads, and why influencers could be the ultimate winners. Musk unveiled a new "X" logo to replace Twitter's famous blue bird as he remakes the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday.
The “#” symbol, or “hashtag”, is used in front of a word or phrase in order to signify a specific topic or message. Hashtags can be used both in Hearsay Social and natively on the social media platform, as permitted by your compliance team.
The symbol known as the hashtag (#) in Twitter has a history of different names and uses in American English, including pound sign – used after a number to mean “weight in pounds,” number sign – used in front of a number to mean “number” (as in "Please review item #2 on the list"), crosshatch, and hash mark.
number sign, also called hash sign, hash mark, pound sign, or octothorpe, versatile symbol (#) most commonly used to preface numbers (e.g., apartment #1) but which encompasses a variety of other uses, especially to tag (or hashtag) posts and messages on social media platforms.
Yes, hashtags still work. It's important to remember that hashtags aren't going anywhere in 2023. In fact, they're back in full force. With a strategic and creative approach, they can be an extremely powerful tool for reaching your target audience and promoting your content.
Using hashtags is essentially a way to group together conversations or content around a certain topic, making it easy for people to find content that interests them. Hashtags can be used on just about any social media platform, but they're most popular on Twitter and Instagram.
The point of using hashtags on social media is that you are indicating to a follower/user and algorithm that your content relates to a specific topic or category. Ultimately, it helps users to find relevant content easily across platforms so your content is discoverable to a wider (or niche) audience.
You cannot see who viewed your Twitter profile, only the number of visits. Twitter doesn't provide this information to protect user privacy. The only way to see how people engage with your tweets is through retweets, likes, replies, and follows.
A username can only contain alphanumeric characters (letters A-Z, numbers 0-9) with the exception of underscores, as noted above. Check to make sure your desired username doesn't contain any symbols, dashes, or spaces. The username may be claimed by a suspended or deactivated account.
To differentiate words, use capital letters. And while numbers are okay (#SuperBowl50, #1stDayOfSchool), punctuation marks and special characters are not. Don't use commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, apostrophes, asterisks, dollar signs, or any other symbols or the hashtag won't work as intended.
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different concepts and experiences.
Exclamation point (!)
The exclamation point is used at the end of exclamations and interjections.
In informal writing, a tilde is sometimes used before a number to mean “about” or “approximately.” For example, a sentence that reads I think my dog weighs ~20 pounds means I think my dog weighs about/around 20 pounds. This usage is likely based on the math usage of the tilde symbol to mean an approximate equivalency.
The period (.), question mark (?) and exclamation point (!) are most commonly recognized, as they appear at the end of a complete thought, idea or statement. The semicolon (;) is different, though, and its usage represents a pause between two independent but related clauses.
Protected tweets cannot be retweeted, although there is nothing to stop an approved follower from copying and pasting the contents of a tweet somewhere else. A protected tweet is marked with a padlock by the account's username.
Twitter-applied
The gold checkmark indicates that the account is an official business account through Twitter Verified Organizations. The grey checkmark indicates that an account represents a government/multilateral organization or a government/multilateral official.
In most cases, the text content of a Tweet can contain up to 280 characters or Unicode glyphs. Some glyphs will count as more than one character. We refer to whether a glyph counts as one or more characters as its weight.