Twitter Jargon and Slangs. (the twitter language)

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1. Guest8897
   

   Twitter is everywhere right now, you can?t turn around without tripping over a newspaper, blog or celebrity explaining how it?s the next big thing. But like most social networks/web 2.0 technologies they are tailored for the geek and can be quite inaccessible to those that do not have the time to invest in learning them. So I present my twitter jargon buster that should provide you with all the information you need on how to use twitter and what you need to know to get started.
   
   twitter - a service that people use to shout about what they are doing right now, share ideas & news and ask for help from others.
   
   tweet - a twitter message, a 140 character update about anything and everything. Messages are public unless a profile is protected.
   
   timeline - this is your homepage on twitter it shows all the messages you send and messages that people you are following send.
   
   direct tweet - a personal message to you that only you and the sender can see (essentially a 140 character email). You can only direct message users that are following you.
   
   follow - people you follow whose tweets will show up in your timeline. The more people you follow the more interesting twitter is, be careful though, following too many people can lead to a high noise to signal ratio.
   
   followed - people who are following your tweets
   
   Protected profiles - You can only see the updates on these profiles if they follow you. Essentially a private twitter profile.
   
   @ - a reply to someone else?s twitter message i.e. @icrossinguk Great intro post about twitter
   
   RT or retweet - a message that is repeated because someone thinks it particularly good i.e. RT @icrossinguk Great intro post about twitter
   
   shorturls - as space in a twitter message is at a premium you can often need to convert long URLs into shorturls so they can fit in a message. Short URLs 301 redirect to the actual URL you want to link to.
   Some popular short url services are bit.ly and tinyurl
   
   # - hash tags are used to tag tweets with a theme or event i.e. #seslondon would be used in a tweet so everyone knows its related to SES London
   search feeds - you can use these to keep track of certain words on twitter. For example I have search feeds set up for eyesnight, icrossing and seslondon. You can also use it to see all messages a particular user is sending and receiving. A search feed for icrossinguk would show all the messages that icrossinguk sends
   and @ message he receives.
   
   twitter spam - accounts that are set up to deliberately spam twitter
   
   hope this answers your question

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2. Guest3555
   

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