Today, I’m having a proud mama moment and it’s not about my son. Today my student became the teacher and she’s said it so well. I’m very proud of my friend and client Heather Kleim for recent blog about her Twitter experiences in promoting her company, Epic Empire Designs.
Editing a ReTweet on Twitter
My tweet:
“Glad to see @Jane & @Mary connected today.”
My friend retweeted the message as:
“Glad 2 C @Jane & @Mary connected 2Day” plus her comment.
I’ve gotta admit I was pretty annoyed with the retweet. Why? Because the way the tweet was edited made me look like a text crazy maniac who failed spelling in Grade 3. This got me thinking about the etiquette of the retweet. Here’ s my take on it:
- Make minimal changes to the original tweet. Its okay to substitute “&” for “and”.
- If you really need to shorten the tweet, use <snip> to make it clear you’ve taken something out.
- If you have a big thought to add, consider retweeting twice but make sure you have two compelling thoughts.
- Remember that you are representing someone’s image to your followers when you retweet them.
- Sometimes its better to use reply rather than retweet. Followers can see the thread by clicking on conversation.
See you in Twitterville. I’m @AngelaCrocker.
Tweet Chat on TweetChat
Hurray! At long last a Twitter tool to make it easy to follow tweets on a particular hashtag and to participate in real time without hopping back and forth between programs. It’s brilliantly simple.
- Go to www.tweetchat.com.
- Enter the hashtag you want to follow at the top of the page.
- Next, sign in to your Twitter account.
- Finally, enjoy the tweets and chat along.
It even helps you out by automatically adding the hashtag to your tweets and with a feature called “smart pausing” that prevents the screen from refreshing so your replies go where you want them to.
If you’d like to take it for a test drive, check out #WatersEdge or #ISMA or #VPIWF_dinner.
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