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I'm Mervi Eskelinen!
An artist, nerd and sorcerer, dedicated to make world softer and better for everyone, and to get you to make more art. Make art, change the world!
Twitter Tuesday: Did you know these things about Twitter?
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New accounts and searches - New or very inactive accounts won't appear in any searches. This includes hashtag searches. If you are creating an account for an event, do it considerable time before the event and make sure to Tweet some too.
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Complete your profile - Also if you haven't filled your name and bio on your profile it will be dropped down or miss from people search. So if you want to be searched and found, do fill the name and bio.
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Search results are limited - The searches show only very limited amount of latest Tweets. Usually for last week or so. So basically Twitter search gives out only the new stuff.
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Private profiles can't @reply everyone - Never mind @mentioning or @replying those who you haven't approved as your followers if your profile is private. They will never see your @replies and @mentions. So forget about Tweeting to your favorite actor, complaining to a brand about their shitty services or dissing some random person if your account isn't public.
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Private Tweets cannot be ReTweeted - To protect your privacy, the Tweets on your private account cannot be ReTweeted (at least not very easily). Of course one can always copy or rewrite your Tweet and then share it. But otherwise ReTweeting is set off in case you are being all private.
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.@reply breaks the conversation - Lots of people want to make everyone see their @replies to certain conversations by adding for instance a dot (or any other character) before the handle of the person they are replying. This breaks things, since the @reply made like this will become an @mention, which doesn't show in the expanded conversation tree on Twitter. Therefore it can be at least close to impossible to find out what this broken @reply was for.
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You don't have to use hashtags - Hashtags are okay to use in certain situations, but too much is too much. Not every single Tweet has to contain a hashtag. Actually if you keep using too many hashtags, your Tweets are likely to start to be ignored by your followers.
EXTRA: You didn't invent that meme - I see people often claiming they have invented a meme. Someone says they invented text based memes (what the heck?) and this person who had joined Twitter last year invented Twitter fiction. Right. There's a good chance you didn't invent that meme, especially if you are new with all of this. There's world outside your Twitter circles, Twitter and your country.
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