In GalleriaLinda's post below there are a lot of symbols. She is tweeting a "list" of good people to follow.
Firstly the RT means that she is "retweeting" something that someone else wrote. right after the RT we see @SackReligious. the @ thingy is how Twitter addresses us... it turns "Sackreligious" from a word to a Twitter address by making it @Sackreligious. Then we see another RT with "@andreasjewelry " right behind it. So this means that Linda retweeted @sackreligious who retweeted @andreasjewelry... three people have sent or resent this message. This is an example of Twitter at its best. If each of these people has, say 2000 followers, that means this message has circulated to at least 6000 people. It maybe that 3 or 4 of their followers found this interesting and RT it too 6 hours later because they saw their name in it in Tweetdeck and they send it out to another crowd of people. If your name is on that list, your name has been passed around the world even before you got your first cup of coffee this morning!!! Cool huh???
Why do we make these lists??? Because we all want to know good people to follow and be followed by good people... we get sort of like cliques in the "bar atmosphere"... this is good. So you will often see "good tweeps to follow" ... click on each of these peoples names/addresses and check them out by reading their bio, follow them if you like, and if you like them all, retweet the message. Sometimes the message gets to long and the Tweetdeck message line goes red. that means you have to start deleting something in that line. Sometimes I very carefully edit and use "Twitter speak"... "for you" becomes 4 U. thank you for the Retweet becomes. Thx 4 RT... thus saving you 10 or 15 precious characters. You learn to be succinct!!! Sometimes you may have to cut the last address or two until your red in the text line disappears and the test reappears. If there is a link in the message carefully preserve the link and cut something else. For us sellers links are important. No point about bragging about your new bag if there is no pic to look at.
Twitter conversations need to go zoom zoom. Tweetdeck will take a long link that you have copied from your address bar and shorten it into something that looks like hyrogliphics. Don't try and figure that one out it doesn't matter. The cool thing about shortening your links in Tweetdeck is that the shortening software that Twitter uses automatically keeps statistics on how many times your link has been clicked on. I love peeking at how many times my link has been peeped at.
When I promote an item several times I like to use the same shortened address so that the statistical count of views GROWSSSSS. Makes me feel very popular
Starting Thursday evening you will see a lot of these lists of names with #FF... that means Follow Friday which is the day that everyone saves for promoting other people as well as their selves as worthy people to follow. Some people just blindly retweet #FF messages. By the way the hashtag means that you can replacement using #FF and find a gazillion messages containing FF lists. It is not advisable to blindly retweet anything. Always check it out because you may be retweeting about badgirls, naughty boys and disgusting videos and useless get rich quick con artists.
Below ever tweet in very fine faint letters you will see something like sent via or by the web... which means it was sent in Twitter, or from Tweetdeck (that's the application or program that I am encouraging you to use), or Hootsuite (another application or program that is another tool that works with twitter that is really cool), or sent by "XYZ' which tells us the name of the program or API (application) that it was sent from. why this is sometimes important is that there are some programs that are able to spit out a tweet every hour or whatever interval you set it at. This is sometimes a good thing if used in moderation. Linda has some of our Bootcamp tweets on auto pilot because she doesn't have time to run to her computer every hour, change hats, tweet, change hat, go back to work. This way she can set auto pilot for certain messages and still has the freedom to jump in at any hour and send a human message without upsetting her auto messages. We will be learning these too eventually.
Programs that auto send messages must be used very carefully. When I see that I am trying to have a twitter realationship with a robot I dump em.... and I can usually tell if the mesage is being sent on auto pilot, from their cel phone or by human delivery like Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck doesn't have any super human qualities... Using it is like putting on a pair of sunglasses on a bright day... all of a sudden you can see through all the Twitter flash more clearly and in a more organized fashion... its a "control panel" really.
Your new items were tweeted for you by icraft. Isn't that cool!!! Icraft has all of our new listings set up on a robotics type system. Although @icraft has many followers those followers already understand that it is an auto feed and they are not often going to be able to hang out and chat back and forth with @icraft. That's ok...
Also icraft has ALL OF OUR BOOTCAMP POSTS ON AN AUTOFEED! If you have wondered why I have rather silly or overstated subject lines it is because I know it is going to get circulated on Twitter. So I like using attention getting subject lines to draw readers in. You would be amazed at how many Twitter followers come and peek at our ongoings here in Bootcamp. I am sure they are dying with envy wanting to be part of our crowd.
Real people like to read about real people and that is what we are all here... think of all of us Bootcampers around a big dining room table having thanksgiving turkey every day and all those peepers out there with their faces pressed up against the window drooling wishfully
So from here on in... always put a little "splash" and "colour" in your subject lines and you too will stand out as a fascinating person and strangers will follow you too.
Sort of... grin grin
Tweetdeck popups at first were annoying and I turned them off except I kinda liked it to know that someone was tweeting me and if I was on line at that moment I would interrupt what I was doing and went and tweeted with them a bit. These 10 or 15 second chitchats can get very addictive so keep a strong hold... LOL. My compromise was to turn the sound off on them so at least it didn't distract me from across the room.
In my real job of many years I had no time for people that had nothing better to do than pick fluff from their bellybutton or other people that spend their whole lives chasing sticks and balls... aka.. golf, baseball, tennis and other useless activities... LOL... I am sure I am hitting a nerve here. My business/ life moved at warp speed and I haven't changed much in my retirement. So... I unfollow the navel pickers, sports fanatics and the other people that are offereing debt reduction, fat reduction, etc. You do not need followers that don't make you look good BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE ME WILL SNOOP THROUGH YOUR FOLLOWERS TO SEE WHO YOU "HANG OUT " WITH BEFORE I follow. The old addage... "birds of a feather flock together" is very true on Twitter. If you want to have a really personal navel picking experience on twitter set up a different account name and don't do any business on it. Hey... none of you know that I might have a secret life aka "Juicy Lucy" on twitter... LOLOLOLOL... NOT!!!
Again sorry for being long winded but this is the best way I can explain because I am new to twitter too and have zero technical jargon.
Hope this helps... If not just ask again and maybe I can have GalleriaLinda take a run at it or one of our other VERY SMART BOOTCAMP ELVES.
Cheers
Christine
.... but the post make no sense. Just a lot of symbols! Here is a post from Linda:
GalleriaLinda
RT @SackReligious: RT @andreasjewelry Promo peeps 4artists 2 #FF @handmadehighway @HandmadeNewsorg @IndieCEO @indiespotting @JustForFunHMN26 minutes ago from HootSuite
What do the symbols RT, @, #FF mean? What is HootSuit? What exactly does this post say? It is meaningless to me.
I recently added three new items to my Icraft store and suddenly I found those items being tweeted on Twitter by Icraft. How did that happen?
I installed TweetDeck and now I am getting pop-ups every so often that stay just long enough be a nuisance but not long enough to read. I turned it off!
Paul C
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