The One Twitter Nuance I’m Surprised You Don’t Know

Each day I am surprised to see the number of people who get this one wrong. These are people who are AVID Twitter users and social media junkies. For some reason, a lot of people missed the memo on this nuance…so, as the resident B2B social media geekI am here to distribute the memo for all of you:

If you send a tweet like this “@coreyolo’s blog is great!” it will ONLY be shown in my timeline and the timeline of those following me! So if you are trying to turn your followers onto a great blog [thanks for that, by the way!] and you use the above tweet, you are only going to reach a select part of your followers. The only way others would see that tweet is if they went directly to your profile, then all tweets are visible.

So, when you want a tweet to be see by all your followers, be sure to include some characters before the @reply. “Reading @coreyolo’s blog–it is great” will be shown to everyone! You will have a hard time driving website traffic if no one sees your tweet!

Get it? Send me a tweet me if you learned something new