Introducing Top 10 Tuesday from GoGirl Academy

GoGirl Academy has a lot of expertise, both on its staff and among its faculty, and we want to share it with you as our way to pay it forward. We are introducing ‘Top 10 Tuesday’ as a way to give you Top 10 Tips, as well as top connections, top groups and other bits of cool information we hope you’ll find useful, inspirational, or just plain fun!

Kicking off our ‘Top 10 Tuesday’ is Top 10 Tweet Tips from our Creative Director Kristi Waite. Kristi is a social media maven and a professional branding expert who loves everything visual. If you spot a font-type on a sign, blog or billboard, chances are good that Kristi will be able to tell you exactly what it is and its history! (In fact, she’s the designer behind our new GoGirl logo on the upper left hand corner that you’ll soon be seeing everywhere).  And she loves Twitter — almost as much as GGA founder and Twitter pro Jenni Hogan. So without further ado — here’s the newest addition to our blog, Top 10 Tuesday with some tips if you are relatively new to Twitter!

1.  Tweets are 140 character (or less) updates of what is going on with the user, along with links to things they think are interesting, funny, or useful to their followers
2.  Any tweet that you post is not private, even if you you are replying to a specific user. Direct Messages are the only way to communicate privately on Twitter
3.  Direct Messages (DM) are private tweets to other users. To be able to send a private message, the two users must follow each other
4.  If you put another user’s username at the start of a tweet with “@”, you are directing that tweet to that user
5.  If you don’t start your tweet with a username, anyone that follows you can see your tweet
6.  “Following” is essentially what other sites call “friending”
7.  Retweeting (RT) is used when you want to forward a tweet that another Twitter user said
8.  Hashtags (#) are Twitter’s way of labeling tweets so that other users can see tweets of the same topic. Hashtags contain no spaces and start with the # symbol
9.  Trending topics are created by using hashtags.
10.  You can make your tweets public (anyone on the web can see them) or private (only your followers can see them)

You’ll find Kristi on Twitter @kmwaite, and you’ll even find me tweeting on occasion @margoinseattle. Jenni’s on Twitter A LOT at @jennihogan. We look forward to hearing from you!

Margo Myers, GGA Executive Director

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