Ever since I did my 5 part series on twitter, I’ve been getting a lot of search results related to it. Most of the search words were answered, but its understandable that people don’t have the time to go through an entire post for a piece of information that isn’t highlighted.

Here’s a list of questions that have landed people on The Base.

How to Create Twitter Hashtags?

Creating hashtags is easy. All you have to do is follow @hashtags from your twitter account and then add a # symbol before the word you want to create a hash about. 

I recently tweeted about a competition I won over at WahmBizBuilder. I tweeted something along the lines of  ”I won the Seth Godin Book content from @wahmbizbuilder! ” Now if I wanted to create a hashtag for the word ‘contest’, I’d writer it as #contest.

I hope this make it clear. For more information, check out the Twitter Fan Wiki for hashtags.

What Does RT Stand For?

RT is short for Re-Tweet. Retweeting means repeating someone else’s tweet for more exposure or simply because you like it.

If you’re twittering from the web, add ‘RT’ before your tweet, then copy and paste the tweet of your choice.

Does replying to twitter help you be seen?

It most definitely does! Replying to other users on twitter helps you engage in conversations and network. Not only are you ‘being seen’ by other people, but you’re also building your personal brand.

Just be friendly and mind your manners when interacting with other twitter-ers and you’ll see your follower numbers increase.

What is twitter and how do you use it?

Twitter is a social networking web service that lets you communicate with people. There’s a catch though. You have to communicate your message in 140 characters or less.  It may say that it’s meant for friends, family and co-workers to communicate, but that’s not how most of its users use twitter.

Twitter is used to network with people with similar interest as yours. If you’re a writer, you’ll start following writers and interact with them. Not only will you get to know some pretty amazing people this way, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to build relationships.

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