Some of them use their accounts to share special discounts or inside info, so you'll probably add lots of them, too. Many of these people and businesses don't just Tweet once a day, but once an hour -- or even more often. Then there's the option of following specific topics.
If you follow everything and everyone that you find interesting, you can end up with hundreds and hundreds of Tweets showing up in your feed on a daily basis. How can you possibly hope to keep up?
Being overwhelmed has led many a formerly Twitter-happy person to abandon the service altogether. Don't despair -- there are ways to manage your Twitter feed without giving up entirely. Not only does Twitter offer you ways to make it easier to keep up, there are also lots of different tools and programs available. Whether you want to read your feed on your phone or your desktop PC , you can streamline things and actually enjoy using Twitter again.
Read on to find out how to manage your Twitter feed, starting with working the tools on the Web site. It's easy to suffer from Twitter feed bloat.
Following one person or business usually leads you to others, and Twitter helpfully makes suggestions for you based on what the people you follow are following. Then when somebody begins following you, you may feel compelled to follow them as well. Before you know it, you're scrolling through your feed looking for the people, businesses and topics that most interest you and trying to keep up with the action.
It's important to note that unlike with other social media sites, you aren't becoming "friends" with somebody when you choose to follow their Tweets. If someone is following you but you don't see anything particularly fascinating about their feed, don't add them back.
Conversely, if you're following someone who doesn't follow you or interact with you in any way, feel free to delete them. You may also want to set a limit on how many people that you're willing to follow; that way if you want to add somebody new, you'll have to make room first. Another way to quickly pare down your feed is to make your Twitter account private.
That way, only people that you approve can read your Tweets, which will automatically limit the number of re-Tweets and direct messages that you'll receive.
You may also think twice about following everyone who wants to follow you since you have to approve them first. If you're using your Twitter account to interact with a business or a celebrity, making your feed private won't allow you to reply to them or direct your Tweets to them using hashtags. If your feed is out of control, though, it's an easy way to scale back. Twitter has a useful management feature that many people don't fully take advantage of: lists. Lists operate like filters.
You can assign every account on your feed to a list, and then use the lists to read your feed by priority or look for something specific. For example, create a "family" feed so you can just see what those people are up to if you don't have time to read your entire feed.
Just click on the silhouette icon in each account's profile, drop down to "add to list" and start forming your lists.
You can also save searches and then use them when you want to find out what people are saying about a specific topic.
If limiting your followers or creating lists isn't helping you manage your Twitter feed, next we'll look at how you can use other applications to do it. In July , Twitter surpassed more than one million registered third-party applications. With that many apps, how do you know which ones can best help you manage your feed?
Let's start with the most popular ones available. One common type of app for Twitter is the browser-based dashboard, or client. These programs interface with Twitter and allow you to do everything that you can from Twitter's site. The difference is that you can organize your feed to fit your needs.
These programs do a lot more than just help you manage your Twitter feed, but we'll focus on those specific features here. This will string together a series of tweets where you can make a larger point. Step 3: If you want to add a photo, a video, a poll, or a gif, you can do so in the lower bar of the "Compose new Tweet" box. Adding a photo does not use up any of your characters, and you can add up to four photos or a video less than in length and mb in size.
Step 4: Sharing a link your Tweet will decrease your character count by 23 characters. Pro tip: Leave a space between your text and the link. Otherwise it may include the entirety of the link in your character count. Step 5: Hashtags are best used for adding to a larger conversation, and the most popular ones show up on the left side of the "Home" tab.
Hashtags are clickable, too, so you can tap on a hashtag to see all the tweets related to that topic. The more you browse Twitter and find people whose tweets you think are smart or funny, the more you'll see some shorthand lingo flying around.
Here's what's what. HT means "hat tip," and it's what you use to credit an account who first clued you into the information you're sharing in your tweet. It's not necessary, but it's a nice thing to do. An , or a mention, is when you include somebody's twittername in the tweet. The person will be alerted that you mentioned them. Use it to send a public "hey, over here," or to add somebody on a conversation that's currently happening.
RT means "retweet. If you do that, when you post your tweet, the tweet you're commenting on will appear just below your comment. Twitter allows you to Direct Message with people who have that feature turned on. It's often called at DM, and it allows you to further conversations in private and chat with groups of people.
While all regular tweets are public, including -mentions, a DM is totally private. Only the people included in the DM can see it. A lot of people complain that Twitter is hard to follow. If people tweet something and you're not online, you might not see it until later. But the idea of Twitter isn't to catch every single thing someone tweets, it's to be on the internet at the same time as other people.
It's like a giant hangout—an open and rich chat room that's happening in public. Twitter will occasionally filter the timeline, showing tweets of your favorite people first Twitter sees who you talk to the most, so it knows who you'd like to see tweets from before showing real-time tweets again in reverse chronological order. It's a nice feature that helps you get caught up on everything that's happened while you've been away.
Remember, everything on Twitter is public by default. However, you can easily make your own private experience. If you'd like to make Twitter a place where you privately interact with friends, just set your account to private.
Turning this setting on means you will have to manually give permission to anyone who wants to follow you if you'd like them to be able to see your tweets and communicate with you. With a private account, only the people who you've given permission to follow you will see your tweets.
Most people choose to leave their accounts public, though. If Facebook is the dinner table with your family and friends, Twitter is a rousing bar.
Most opt to stick with the default but choose to only say things they'd be comfortable saying to strangers. Most importantly, if your account is public and someone is actin' a fool—posting mean tweets called trolling or just bugging you constantly—don't hesitate to block them, mute them, or report their behavior. All of these options are available to you, so don't be afraid to use them. Happy Tweeting! How to Make a Twitter Account on Desktop. When I found myself heading for Google every time I checked out my Twitter feed, I knew it was time to start writing some definitions down so I could learn the language myself, so that's exactly what I did.
Here are some of the most popular Twitter slang terms you should know. As you find a few to sprinkle into your next batch of scheduled Tweets for your Twitter marketing campaign , try to avoid the temptation to use them all at once — a little goes a long way. Essentially, this is used to have conversations with people on Twitter. But be careful not to over-hashtag your tweets — one or two is probably enough.
A "DM," or "direct message," is a private message between two Twitter users. Your home feed updates every time someone you follow tweets. FollowFriday started as a way to recommend other Twitter users to your followers. It happens on Fridays, and you can search Twitter for the hashtag on Fridays to watch the kudos pour in. Just because someone follows you doesn't mean you have to follow them back, the way some other social networks work. This is the one mistake almost everyone makes on Twitter.
If you tweet username without a period, only your mutual followers in other words, people who follow both you and username and the person your tweeting to. Add a period before username, though, and all of your followers will see your tweet in their streams. A retweet is the basic form of currency on Twitter. If the original tweet is yours, way to go! Trolls are people on Twitter who abuse the service by spamming users with off-topic tweets and other erratic behavior. Trolling is a form of internet harassment, so if you think someone is trolling you on Twitter, you can learn how to take action here.
Tweeps are Twitter folks that follow each other from one social network to another. It's not uncommon for the people you're friends with on Facebook to also follow you on Twitter — they would be your Tweep. It's a Twitter-ized version of "peeps. Arguably the most common Twitter term.
Every update you post to your followers on Twitter is called a tweet. Heck, even CEOs may be listening to your tweets. Any person, place, thing, or idea that a lot of people are tweeting about at once is considered a trend. You can find trends on the left side of your Twitter homepage, and you can even tailor what trends you see based on your location and who you follow.
Tip: Are you a local business? Connecting with users who are in your same geographic location is a great way to get more business value out of Twitter.
Literally, the people or person, in the singular that make up the vast Twitterverse universe! Just like someone can unfriend you on Facebook, people can choose to unfollow you on Twitter so your tweets stop showing up in their feed.
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