My response to Jean's comment on my blog post: Twitter, twitter, twitter, tweet
Hi Jean,
I am glad that you have found my post helpful. I felt like a newbie until this course.
In relation to hashtags, a group hashtag stays the same and your tweet stays the same. The hashtag community, ie #oltd505, grows as more people tweet to it. The hashtag you include depends on who you wish to connect with. You can include more than one hashtag and then it will show up in a number of groups. People in these groups, who wish to share your tweet, will retweet it to their followers. The more followers they have than the more people who will read your tweet. If they retweet it then even more people will read it and perhaps reply. This is one way to widen your audience. Other ways are: Check out people on Twitter you may be interested in following and click follow. Retweet tweets. Include twitterers' name as well as a hashtag in your tweet, ie @JEJacek. If you include Alec, @courosa, you may be lucky to be retweeted and then seen by his thousands of followers.
I have just started using the Twitter tool "Tweetdeck". One feature is creating a column for each hashtag you wish to monitor. You can then read, reply and retweet easily. This gets you out there even more. It is free to create an account on Tweetdeck. It is not available as an iPad app. Hootsuite is presently the iPad app that allows you to follow Twitter and Facebook simultaneously. I find Tweetdeck more useful for seeing and being seen in Twitter.
Please let me know if you have any further questions or need clarification on what I have said.
Thanks, Jane
Hi Jean,
I am glad that you have found my post helpful. I felt like a newbie until this course.
In relation to hashtags, a group hashtag stays the same and your tweet stays the same. The hashtag community, ie #oltd505, grows as more people tweet to it. The hashtag you include depends on who you wish to connect with. You can include more than one hashtag and then it will show up in a number of groups. People in these groups, who wish to share your tweet, will retweet it to their followers. The more followers they have than the more people who will read your tweet. If they retweet it then even more people will read it and perhaps reply. This is one way to widen your audience. Other ways are: Check out people on Twitter you may be interested in following and click follow. Retweet tweets. Include twitterers' name as well as a hashtag in your tweet, ie @JEJacek. If you include Alec, @courosa, you may be lucky to be retweeted and then seen by his thousands of followers.
I have just started using the Twitter tool "Tweetdeck". One feature is creating a column for each hashtag you wish to monitor. You can then read, reply and retweet easily. This gets you out there even more. It is free to create an account on Tweetdeck. It is not available as an iPad app. Hootsuite is presently the iPad app that allows you to follow Twitter and Facebook simultaneously. I find Tweetdeck more useful for seeing and being seen in Twitter.
Please let me know if you have any further questions or need clarification on what I have said.
Thanks, Jane