Don’t Start a Tweet With @ If You Want All of Your followers to See It

25 Aug 2009

I see this happen quite often so I hope I can help at least a few people by clarifying this. Recently, Twitter changed the option we once had to see all @ replies even if they were sent to someone we weren’t following. Now, if you send a tweet that you want all of your followers to see but post something like, “@Starbucks is giving away free coffee”, the only people who will see that tweet will be the ones that follow both you and @Starbucks.

If you send a tweet or a reply to someone and you want all of your followers to see it, you need to put something in front of the @ symbol. So, for example, if I wanted to let all my followers know that Starbucks was giving away free coffee, I would tweet, “Wow, @Starbucks is giving away free coffee.” As long as something is in front of the @ symbol, it will be visible to all of my followers. If you want to save characters you could always use something like, “> @Starbucks is giving away free coffee.”

Disclaimer: To my knowledge, Starbucks is not giving away free coffee today.

http://BernardMolek.com Bernard

Whoa…good tip! I need to get back over here and learn more often.
http://www.profi-haarpflege.com Micky

Hello!
Thank you for this information. I am new at twitter
NowVoyager

Great tip! But what I want to know is are my tweets seen by *other* people's followers?

http://www.socialidentities.com Hugh Briss

NowVoyager: Your tweets are only seen by your followers. The only way their followers — who aren't following you as well — will see your tweets is if one of your followers retweets your tweet.

NowVoyager

Great tip! But what I want to know is are my tweets seen by *other* people's followers?
http://www.socialidentities.com Hugh Briss

NowVoyager: Your tweets are only seen by your followers. The only way their followers — who aren't following you as well — will see your tweets is if one of your followers retweets your tweet.