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= Creating tweets =

You can draft a tweet on your own or you can share (or modify and share) another user's tweet. (You can also use sharing buttons from other websites to post on Twitter but this is not recommended for privacy reasons)


 * **Contents**

What a Tweet Looks Like Interacting with Others Sharing Others' Tweets: Retweeting & Modifying Tweets Adding Hashtags to a Tweet ||
 * The anatomy of a tweet
 * A simple tweet
 * Replying to a tweet
 * Retweet Button
 * ====Retweeting with Manual Modifications====
 * Simple retweet (RT)
 * Modified tweet (MT)

What a Tweet Looks Like
Click here for more detail about each of these parts of a tweet and other information about tweeting that is discussed on this page. ||
 * ====**The Anatomy of a Tweet**==== ||
 * Ryan Deeds put together the graphic below to illustrate the parts of a tweet.
 * [[image:https://rdeeds.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/anatomyofatweet.jpeg?w=600&h=337]] ||


 * ====**A Simple Tweet**==== ||
 * This user has typed out a message and included a hashtag. ||
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Interacting with Others
//can see the response in their feed.// ||
 * ====A **Reply** to the Above Tweet==== ||
 * //By pressing on 'Reply' underneath the original tweet, one user can reply to another. Only those who follow either the original author or the user who replied//
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Sharing Others' Tweets: Retweeting and Modifying Tweets

 * ====To Retweet a post without modifying it at all is as simple as clicking the **Retweet button** located====

along the bottom of the tweet.
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**Retweeting with Manual Modifications**
//in the link without modifying the original message.// || For a retweet, you can copy and paste the message from and then type 'RT' before the person's name or you can add a 'Classic RT' browser extension.
 * ====A **manual retweet (RT)** from an article tweeted from another source.==== ||
 * //Retweeting this way can be used to add further insight into the tweet or the information contained//
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 * = Before ||= After ||

//in the link, but the MT denotes that the original message has been altered from its original format.// //This is often done because the total tweet exceeds 140 characters.// ||
 * ====**Modified tweet (MT)** from a tweet altered from its original state==== ||
 * //Retweeting this way can be used to add further insight into the tweet or the information contained//
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 * = Before ||= After ||

Adding Hashtags to a Tweet
//to denote humour, irony or other commentary. Conferences, topics and even weekly chats among professionals// //are organized in hashtags. Search the hashtag on Google if you want to know how it's being used. You may even// //find others on that tag to follow. A list of educational hashtags can be found here.// ||
 * //A hashtag begins with a '#' and can be used to categorize information in a searchable way.// //It can also be used//
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 * = Hashtags being used for categorizing ||= A hashtag used for humour/commentary ||


 * Next: ** Touring the Twitter homepage