Facebook® & Twitter® For Seniors For Dummies®

Chapter 11. Conversing on Twitter with Friends, Family, and More

Get ready to ...

• Follow Basic Guidelines for Conversing

• Pass Along a Chosen Tweet

• Favorite Your Favorite Tweets

• Search for Tweeted Topics

• Know What to Tweet About

When you register on Twitter, you get all sorts of suggestions about how to connect with people. As I suggest in Chapter 10, I think it's best to get familiar with the basic concepts of a new site before inviting all your friends to the party. I mean, after all, what kind of host or hostess can you be if you barely know the lay of the land yourself?

I hope you've checked out Twitter a bit. I must confess, it took me quite a while to really "get" it. But once I did, I wanted to invite all my friends — and if they weren't already on Twitter, I wanted them to join so I could share my new shiny toy!

In this chapter, I talk a little more about the finer details of communicating on Twitter. I give you guidelines about making hip tweets, show you how to retweet and accumulate favorite tweets, and give you some advice on what to tweet about.

Follow Basic Guidelines for Conversing

1. We're all adults here. I'm not going to tell you who to be friends with on Twitter, and I'm certainly not going to tell you what to tweet. There are a few conventions and standards that make Twitter interesting, so read on and you'll be twittering like a pro in no time.

   • Don't just broadcast your ideas. When you're on Twitter, you'll see that some people just continually broadcast their thoughts over ...