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Basic Terms and Features of Twitter: Twitter Week Day 1

Here is a list of Twitter feature and basic terminology which will help you understand Twitter better. # sign The hash sign is used to mark a word as a keyword, which denotes a “hashtag”. We’ll tell you what a hashtag means just down this article. So if your Tweet(a Twitter update) relates to a popular quote, you’ll add the #quote hashtag to denote it as a quote. @ reply The @ sign is used to indicate that you are replying to a specific username. For example, if you want to pass...

Twitter Basics for beginners: Twitter Week Day 1

If you’ve never heard of Twitter before this, we’ll give you a quick guide on how to start. Go to Twitter.com and click on the ‘Get Started – Join!’ button: On the next screen, you’ll be required to fill in your account details. You must be at least 13 years of age to use Twitter. You can choose a Twitter display name (also called the Twitter Handle). You Twitter url will thus become http://www.twitter.com/your_handle: You can then check which of your friends are on...