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The Tweet Cheat Sheet

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Nick Allen
Nick Allen

The document provides guidance on setting up a Twitter profile and using key Twitter features effectively. It recommends using your name as your Twitter handle for consistency across platforms, completing your biography with details like your title and areas of focus, and adding a professional headshot. It also describes how to use the @ mention to communicate directly with other users, how to retweet and credit other users, how to use direct messages privately, and how hashtags and lists can help organize tweets and followers by topic.

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Tweet Cheat Sheet Profile set-up Use your name as your twitter handle. Stick with the same handle across your web presence for consistency. Complete your biography with your title, employee and areas of focus. Use your Bio as an insight into your persona on Twitter, potential followers will appreciate it. Link to your LinkedIn profile or website and add your location. Use a professional, close up portrait. @ Use @<user> at the start of a tweet to communicate directly with someone. If used at the start, only followers of that person will see your message in their stream. If you would like everyone to see the tweet, add them at the end. RT use traditional retweet annotation to share ideas with your followers. It's easier for the originator of the tweet to spot. When you're RTed, thank the person. You would do it in real life, so do it on Twitter. The in app or on site retweet button can often be missed by the sender. Other permeations: - CC If you think an article could be of use/interest to someone specific. - MT If a link you are sharing mentions a user. - by If they are the author. - Via if the tweet came from them. - HT Give a Hat Tip to a user if the link is from them, but they haven’t tweeted it. DM direct message someone if the information is sensitive, and for sending email addresses / phone numbers. # / Search Tweet using hastags relevant to your topic. Set up canned searches for the key topics mentioned in your bio. Remember to join hashtag words, #nick #allen is a totally different search to #nickwallen. Lists Segment your followers by topic. Consider creating a specific list for those that you correspond with on a regular basis. nickwallen.co for more info

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The Tweet Cheat Sheet

  • 1. Tweet Cheat Sheet Profile set-up Use your name as your twitter handle. Stick with the same handle across your web presence for consistency. Complete your biography with your title, employee and areas of focus. Use your Bio as an insight into your persona on Twitter, potential followers will appreciate it. Link to your LinkedIn profile or website and add your location. Use a professional, close up portrait. @ Use @<user> at the start of a tweet to communicate directly with someone. If used at the start, only followers of that person will see your message in their stream. If you would like everyone to see the tweet, add them at the end. RT use traditional retweet annotation to share ideas with your followers. It's easier for the originator of the tweet to spot. When you're RTed, thank the person. You would do it in real life, so do it on Twitter. The in app or on site retweet button can often be missed by the sender. Other permeations: - CC If you think an article could be of use/interest to someone specific. - MT If a link you are sharing mentions a user. - by If they are the author. - Via if the tweet came from them. - HT Give a Hat Tip to a user if the link is from them, but they haven’t tweeted it. DM direct message someone if the information is sensitive, and for sending email addresses / phone numbers. # / Search Tweet using hastags relevant to your topic. Set up canned searches for the key topics mentioned in your bio. Remember to join hashtag words, #nick #allen is a totally different search to #nickwallen. Lists Segment your followers by topic. Consider creating a specific list for those that you correspond with on a regular basis. nickwallen.co for more info