Categories: Social Media

Back To Basics: Twitter Cheat Sheet

I think it’s time to get back to basics. You know, back to the core of things. I especially mean Twitter, and how it works. I think most social media infographic designers forget that there are a lot of people out there who just use Twitter to update their friends and family (I would personally estimate it to be about 98% of the user base). They don’t go hardcore, and they don’t really try to optimize their time in order to be able to use Twitter as much as they possibly can during their day. There are hundreds of thousands of people who sign up for Twitter each day, or there about, and what those people need is a simple and basic introduction to Twitter.

It has been proven that Twitter has a pretty steep learning curve if you want to really get into it, but most people never get to that level at all. They simply type their 140 character tweets, send them, and then just watch what their followings send. They don’t have any aspirations to become the next king of the followers. So with this in mind, I turn to all the people who are just about to start out using Twitter (believe me, there are quite a few people out there who don’t know what Twitter is, even today).

I found a really basic and simple infographic published by lexisclick, and it only explains the very core of Twitter and what it all means. Like so many other people, I would really like FollowFriday (#FF) to become what it once was. It used to be a serious follow introduction where one person was mentioned per hashtag. What it has become is a spam contest that keeps chugging out 8-10 (if not more) follow suggestions in one single tweet. Not only does it defeat the purpose, but it’s ultimately confusing for all the new users of Twitter who don’t even know what FollowFriday is really all about. I say, let’s go back to the basics. Let’s do things the way they are supposed to be done when it comes to sharing the awesomeness called our followers. It’s about time, don’t you agree?

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Via: [Visual.ly]

Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com