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How To Find The Context Of A Reply Tweet @FreeNuts thanks for the RT! The above message was from @stillmansays, although it is a reply tweet to me, everyone can see it, but you may not know what “the RT” means indeed. On Twitter, there are many similar tweets beginning with “@”, most of which you don’t know what they means without their contexts. So, how to find the context of a reply tweet and understand what the tweet talks about? Taking the tweet mentioned in the beginning of this post for example, this post will introduce three different ways for you to find the context of a reply tweet. I. MobileMetrix - Lives Counted, Lives Changed 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education. The creative ways Twitter users have incorporated microblogging has become inspirational, so the recent trend of using Twitter at college, including at online colleges, is sure to keep evolving into an ever more impressive tool. Make sure you don’t get left behind by incorporating some of these educational and fun ways that Twitter can be used in the college classroom. Communication Twitter offers new and exciting ways to open up the lines of communication in the classroom. Find out some of the ways it can work with this list.

Topsy - Real-time search for the social web With iOS 9, Search lets you look for content from the web, your contacts, apps, nearby places, and more. Powered by Siri, Search offers suggestions and updates results as you type. There are two ways to use Search on your iOS device. Who Should I Follow? - Twitter Friend Recommendations Twitter's mobile now let you embed tweets inside tweets In what looks like an effort to clean up how tweets appear in your timeline, Twitter for iOS and Android both actually embed tweets that have been linked in a tweet. To embed a tweet in a tweet, just drop the link of the update’s URL in the tweet you’re composing. When the tweet goes live, instead of an ugly URL link, the linked tweet is displayed in its entirety. Before we unleash a bevy of Inception-related jokes, we’re reached out to Twitter to see if this is a new feature or something they are testing.

Cards Introduction With Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos, videos and media experiences to Tweets, helping to drive traffic to your website. Simply add a few lines of markup to your webpage, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a “Card” added to the Tweet that’s visible to their followers. The Tweet embedded below shows a Player Card along with 140 characters: Drive engagement from your Tweets twitternotes.com

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