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Bernie Sanders

hootinholler

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2. IT's kind of hard to explain but I'll try

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #1)

Mon May 25, 2015, 07:00 AM

May 2015

It's not that I'm all Twitter literate but here goes.

There are two basic things, the @ and the #

The @: This is what you use when you are replying or sending a tweet to someone specific, it appears on their feed. @BernieSanders I don't think that capitalization matters.

The #: This is what you use to denote a subject. It's kind of like identifying a keyword. These are what drives the trending list. #FeelTheBern is one popular one for posts about Bernie. Hashtags are arbitrary and include everything from the hash itself through the next space. If you search a hashtag you'll get a list of all the tweets that contain it.

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Bernie Sanders Tweet Brigade TODAY at 6:30 pm est [View all] merrily May 2015 OP

I only just created a twitter account, so I'm a little unclear on how it all works. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #1

IT's kind of hard to explain but I'll try hootinholler May 2015 #2

Actually, I think I remembered that part. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #3

Sorry. I don't know anything about mechanisms of that kind. merrily May 2015 #6

Twitter mystifies me too - LiberalElite May 2015 #4

I mostly just retweet. smokey nj May 2015 #7

thanks n/t Wilms May 2015 #5