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# Odd Todd's Perfect Tweet: A Twitter Crash Course

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## Video: Odd Todd's Perfect Tweet: A Twitter Crash Course

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_Published 2011-06-21. Ever seen the perfect tweet? Both the beginner and the most devoted tweep can enjoy Odd Todd's cartoon crash course in Twitter_


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] Did you get it? Did I get what? The perfect tweet. Awesome. I just tweeted out. [ SOUND ] You sound drunk or something. I've been drinking mojito. I tweeted about the Mohitos. Momma say momma saw my mojito. Tweeted it out. Alright, let me see this perfect tweet. I love my mojitos. Momma say momma say my mojito. That's, that's the perfect tweet? [ NOISE ] I'm so not interested in Twitter. You just don't understand Twitter. You want a crash course? No. You got it. Time for your crash course. Here we go. RT stands for retweet. If you see an RT before a tweet that means the tweeter has forwarded someone else's tweet.

And t stands for modified tweet. Because a tweet could only be a max of 140 characters, often tweeters need to shorten or modify the original tweet in order to add their comment. Ht stands for hat tip or [ INAUDIBLE ]. If a tweeter was inspired or got their information from another source like, how to make a cupcake sandwich [ NOISE ] [ MUSIC ] It's polite to acknowledge that tweeter via ht. [ NOISE ] Are you okay? Yup, just had a bit of a tj. A tj? [ NOISE ] Tj equals throw up junior, where you throw up in your mouth a little. Pound honey bager don't care. Okay what is this pound thing? The pound symbol is also known as a hash tag.

A hash tag before a word in a tweet sort of flags it like a keyword. It make it easy for other twitters to click and search to see all the tweets involving that word or topic or joke. How I tweet a picture on this thing? Okay I'll tweet a picture of my mojito, I go into my phone and send it off. [ SOUND ] Now the way I did that is. I think you might have tweeted the wrong picture. What? [ SOUND ] How do you undo? recall, [ SOUND ], where's the recall? Untweet. Oh my God. Oh my God. There's gotta be an untweet on this. Anyone, is there an untweet? I don't know a lot about Twitter, but the one thing I do know Untweet.

There ain't no untweet. Untweet. [ MUSIC ] Tweeted it out. [ SOUND ]

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