Profilesyour personal homepage
“everything about me on FB”
Groupscollaborative spaces“organizing with others”
Pagesan official Facebook presence for an organization,
managed by Page Admins
“promotion, sharing news, audience interaction”
Status Updates/Stories (Posts)
Content shared by a user on a profile, group or
page; displays in reverse-chronological order.
“I have something new to share with you.”
Timeline (“The Wall”)
Collected" status updates from a profile/group/page.
“Things I do with Facebook are collected here.”
Pinning
a Post
Keeps a post at the top
of the timeline for up to
7 days.
Only works on posts
Admins write.
“This post is about an
unplanned outage – please
read.”
Tweet a message sent via Twitter, 140 char max
Follow subscribe to another user’s tweets
Every tweet from everyone you follow appears in your Home Feed/Timeline.
“Please follow us on Twitter for up-to-date information.”
@Reply a tweet targeted to another Twitter user
Visible in others’ Home Feeds only if a user follows both the sender and recipient.
Mention a tweet that contains “@username”
anywhere in the body of the text. Visible to all Followers (like any regular tweet).
.@reply or ?@reply works like an @reply, but
all of your followers will be able to see it.
“This response is for @you, but everyone would benefit
from seeing it.”
Direct Message (“DM”) a private tweet
between sender and receiver.
• sending a DM: user must follow you
• receiving a DM: only from users you follow
URL Shortening
Reducing the number of characters in a URL to save space in a tweet.
URLs usually appear at the end of a tweet
Retweet (“RT”)
Sharing someone’s tweet to your own account.
Auto-Retweet re-post an exact tweet.
Manual Retweet to add commentary.
Favorite save and highlight a tweet on your account
“I like your Tweet.” “I want to save this for later.”
Hashtag (#) community-driven categorization of
tweets using relevant keywords
context, tracking and search purposes
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Image Credits
• Sketched Facebook and Twitter logos: Chris Spooner
• I know that feel bro: SociallyAwkwardRobot
• Cropped FB logo: TheNextWeb
• Large Twitter logo: Fasticon
• Pinned Post: Social Media Travelers
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