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- Auto-Tweet
- When an application or program automatically sends a tweet to your twitter account when you update said application or program. For example whenever you post to Posterous, you can set it to send a tweet with the title, and a link to the blog post.
- Blog
- Originally known as a Web Log – it’s an online and public space for writing, thoughts and reflection, normally allowing comments from others.
- Embed
- To take a piece of media hosted elsewhere (youtube, flickr etc) and to share it on another web page or blog. Quite often a ‘share’ button will offer you embed code – this should be cut & pasted into the html edit section of a blog or website.
- Feed / Stream
- Colloquially (online) these both refer to a series of entries in an online space – i.e. a person’s twitter stream consists of their status updates, and a Flickr stream would consist of a person’s uploaded pictures.
- HashTags
- (# + keyword ie #getambition) Are a community-driven method for adding metadata to tweets. When used, every hashtag (the hash symbol attached to the front of a keyword) becomes a click-able link enabling the user to create a real-time search of that keyword effectively creating groupings without changing the basic twitter service.
- Micro-Blogging
- Micro-blogging describes the phenomenon of sites such as Twitter – blogging done on a micro, mobile scale. Originally based on the 160 characters allotted to a text message.
- Podcast
- Subscribe-able audio broadcasts online.
- Post / Update
- An entry on a blog, social media platform or website.
- Re-Tweet (RT)
- When someone re-posts one of your tweets (linking to you in doing so) because they have appreciated what you’ve said enough to want to show their followers in their network.
- RSS Feed
- Allows people to subscribe to the content posted on a social media platform or blog. (Really Simple Syndication (See Wikipedia))
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