Respondents were screened for eligibility, and those who confirmed that they used Twitter were asked to share their Twitter handle in order to participate in the study. Next, researchers reviewed each account and removed any that were nonexistent or belonged to institutions, products or international entities. Twitter users can choose not to post tweets publicly, but the Twitter API makes summary statistics about all accounts — public or private — available.
More information about the surveys used in this report appears in the Methodology section. Most notably, Twitter users are much younger than the average U. S adult and are also more likely than the general public to have a college degree. The median age of adult U. Twitter users is 40, while the median U. Put differently, the U. Although less pronounced than these differences in age, Twitter users also tend to have higher levels of household income and educational attainment relative to the general adult population.
But the gender and racial or ethnic makeup of Twitter users is largely similar to the adult population as a whole. Twitter users are more likely to identify with the Democratic Party compared with U. Of course, many political independents actually lean toward one of the two major parties. These partisan differences between Twitter users and the general public persist when looking across certain age groups.
Among older users, these differences are similar. In terms of political ideology, Twitter users are less likely than U. At the same time, similar shares of Twitter users and U. Twitter users as a group express distinct opinions relative to the public as a whole on some political values, particularly when it comes to views having to do with race, immigration and gender.
These suggestions will appear in your feed if you're using the app, or on the side of the screen if you're using the website. Step 4: If you're in the mobile app, you can also click on the Connect feature , which will offer you suggestions based on what you've tweeted or liked. Step 5: Keep adding people.
There's no limit, but once you've landed between and accounts, you'll notice the correlation between the number of people you follow and the amount of tweets that show up in your feed. If you're craving more, keep adding people. But build it up slowly and see how it feels. Before you start firing off tweets, it might help to know a little about the mechanics. Step 1: All tweets are a maximum of characters. While that might seem too short to say anything substantive, it's not. It might mean having to tweet multiple times to make a complex point in the Twittersphere, we call that a thread , but boiling down your thoughts to a couple of lines really just makes your statement stronger, faster to read, and more shareable.
Step 2: Speaking of a Twitter thread, if you have more than characters to say about a subject they are easy to make. 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. And the intrigue gets even bigger when you start thinking of the reasons that drive people to tweet. So with this article I want to take you to the deepest levels of this understanding. I think we can easily break down all Twitter users into two very general groups based on what they tweet:.
The main difference between these two is that the first group is driven by their conscious mind and logic while the second one acts absolutely unconsciously. As you can tell, the two groups tweet differently and have different motivations behind their tweets.
The fundamental difference here is where the focus goes. These people have to think about their followers in the first place. Every tweet should be relevant to their audience or there will be no result. Thus, if you? But if you are a movie star are there any among my readers btw? Like the one tweeted by Sports Illustrated reporter Richard Deitsch , which resulted in a massive feedback from his followers and hundreds of other people on Twitter:. How many of you have a photograph of the single best moment of your life?
If so, what a gift. He somehow inspired his followers to share treasured intimate moments of their life captured on camera:. Later this story was covered in mainstream media and as for Richard, he gained a few thousands new followers out of this:. Another amazing case study is how NY Times were treating their Twitter account in ?
If a tweet worked once, send it again? Social Media Experts? Twitter for business? I love how Seth Godin puts it in his book Tribes :. Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself. In the early days of Twitter they had? Which motivated people to post tweets that we? But unfortunately most of the people are quite predictable and live similar boring lives. So you should bear with the fact that no one is interested to know if you?
And still all these people who don? In her amazing article at NY Times, Peggy Orenstein suggests that social media makes us pull ourselves out of the moment that we? Among young people especially she found that the self was increasingly becoming externally manufactured rather than internally developed: a series of profiles to be sculptured and refined in response to public opinion.
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