Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Please explain twitter to me?

palm · 2010-09-09 11:06:06

As the title says, I'm trying to figure out what twitter is all about and how it works with terms like following, followe, retweet, etc explained.

09-09-2010 12:06PM

#1

palm

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭

Join Date: March 2010

Posts: 37

As the title says, I'm trying to figure out what twitter is all about and how it works with terms like following, followe, retweet, etc explained.

0

Comments

#2 09-09-2010 12:07PM

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2005

Posts: 5948

http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics

0
#3 09-09-2010 12:40PM

sNarah

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,570 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2008

Posts: 4296

Put very simply:

You have your Twitter account, let's say your nickname is "Palm".

You follow people and people follow you
--> You follow people: Every tweet (a single message on Twitter) tweeted by the people you follow - will show up in your twitterfeed

--> people who follow you, will see every message you put on Twitter.

Retweets are messages written by a person, that are copied in their exact same form and tweeted by someone else. Let's say you tweeted "I love biscuits", I can then copy your tweet and send it again, which is called retweeting. Usually people retweet funny/interesting links or quote's.

0