Foundation: Exploring My Community - Social Media Guide

Engagement

Follow accounts

There are two established practices for this platform. It is a generally accepted practice to follow people or accounts. For instance, you could follow influencers in your field, and as a result their tweets will show up in your home feed.

The second practice is that you can view someone's tweets without following their account. People you follow may re-tweet posts of people you don't follow, or you can use the search function to look at an account's feed without following them. 

TWEET – a short, concise message (maximum 280 characters).

RETWEET – someone's Tweet from your feed.

#Hashtags – link similar topics together. They can be used in the middle of a Tweet or at the end of a Tweet, e.g., #CareerManagement. Capitalize words (but with no spaces) to make your hashtags more accessible.

#Hashtags can also be used to search a topic, e.g., #NowHiring or #NonProfitJobs.