In the previous lesson I covered how to create lists and how useful they are in keeping organized.
In this next lesson we'll discuss keyboard shortcuts and how they can make using Twitter more efficient. Since this is a short one, I'll quickly cover the Help section as well.
What Are Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts?
Twitter keyboard shortcuts are special commands that are performed when you press a specific key or combination of keys which can save you precious seconds from you life. Keyboard shortcuts have been popular everywhere including word processors, online games, and other social media sites. So what Twitter keyboard shortcuts are there? Let's find out.
Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts
Actions
There are a variety of actions you can perform by using keyboard shortcuts.
n - New Tweet: Pressing the "n" key a pop up box will appear that allows you to compose a new tweet
l - Like: Pressing the "l" key, that's lower case L, you can like a tweet if you are in a tweet
r - Reply: Pressing the "r" key pops up the reply text box when you are in a tweet
t - Retweet: Pressing the "t" key pops up the retweet textbox when you are in a tweet
m - Direct Message: Pressing the "m" key will pop up the direct message box
u - Mute User: Mute user; Stops you from getting any tweets from the user on your timeline
b - Block User: Block user; Stops you from getting anything from the user including tweets and messages.
Enter - Open tweet details: Opens tweet details when tweet is highlighted by navigation shortcuts
o - Expand photo: Expands photo in highlighted tweet
/ - Search: Focuses your cursor on the search bar
Ctrl + Enter - Send tweet: Send a tweet when you are composing a tweet
Navigation
? (SHIFT + /): Pressing ?, which is actually SHIFT + /, will pop up the keyboard shortcut menu
j - Next tweet: highlight next tweet (press enter to see the tweet details)
k - Previous tweet: highlight previous tweet (press enter to see the tweet details)
Space - Page down: scrolls the page down
. - Load new tweets: the period key loads any new tweets that are available
Timelines
These actions can be done on any page and will load the associated pages when holding "g" along with the helper letter. Just think of "g" as "Go to". So basically g + h is telling Twitter to "Go to Home".
g + h: Home
g + o: Moments
g + n: Notifications
g+ r: Mentions
g + p: Profile
g + l: Likes
g + i: Lists
g + m: Messages
g + s: Settings
g + u: Go to user
Getting Help
If you ever need help or want to learn more about Twitter's features, they have a help section under your profile menu.
You'll be taken to the Help Center where you can search your issue.
Or you can take a look at common questions and answers by category. Within those categories there are a bunch of common questions which you can click into to get more information. If that still doesn't solve your issue there's a Contact Support link at the bottom of the help document. I also left the link HERE so you can access it directly instead of fishing around for it in the site.
Review
So today you learned:
- What are Twitter keyboard shortcuts
- How to use them
- Getting Help
Hopefully you now know how use the handy keyboard shortcuts and are able to quickly navigate through Twitter as well as know how to get help when you need it.
Do you know of any other useful shortcuts or neat Twitter features? Let me know.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.
In the next lesson we'll learn about searching and how to find accounts to follow.
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Here's an article about getting your tweets to go viral
https://blog.bufferapp.com/3-ways-to-easily-go-viral-on-twitter
but I think I pretty much covered it in my Lesson 8: Building Your Network section. You can also search for trending tags and see if you can take advantage of them.
I'll come back to this when I'm ready... it sounds very time consuming. I barely have enough time to add content to my sites. How many hours a day would you estimate you spend on twitter?
I talked about some good online tools that really help automating things in Lesson 8: Building Your Network.
I recycle my tweets with TweetJukeBox so it gets spread around without me having to manually tweet them.
I use CrowdFire to manage my list by adding back people who have interacted with me as well as removing those who have unfollowed me to maintain a good follow-follower ratio. You can also schedule your tweets with CrowdFire.
I use TraffUp to help get my tweets retweeted.
So everything is pretty automated. What I do in the morning is just check on my notifications in Twitter to respond to anyone interacting with me an add them if I don't already follow them. Then I do a search on Twitter for things related to my niche and retweet some of the interesting ones. Every time I have a new blog post, I will tweet it then I will add it to the TweetJukeBox queue so it'll get recycled automatically. Maybe if you don't have many tweets to recycle you should just manually do it for now but as you get a big list this definitely helps. Especially since you don't have to sit in front of the computer to post the tweet because it's scheduled automatically.
Read Lesson 8: Building Your Network for more info.
example when tey rolled out the video call feature in facebook about 5 years ago, they rolled it out regionally and gradually (to test it before just rolling it out world wide all at once.) it could be a similar thing!
here's an idea, try going through a proxy so your twitter account thinks you're in North america and therefore gives you the north american version?
use HOLA chrome extension for that....u can also watch tv from different countries with that...hulu, netflix, bbciplayer, anyone? lol
neat little extension that is! works a treat too!
Here are some other resources where you can find Twitter trends for Australia:
http://trendsmap.com/local/australia
http://trends24.in/australia/
