[CaudleHalbard]

I think I've kinda got it now......... not 100% sure, though!

What I say below assumes you are neither following nor being followed by the person you are trying to message by means of a tweet.

When you post a tweet to, for example, @BBUK the tweet appears on your own Twitter page and BBUK would get a notification by means of a "Mention".

They can then look at your tweet but only by going onto your Twitter page? Is this right.... or not!

Still struggling with this - as you can see. Lol!

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by CaudleHalbard

I think I've kinda got it now......... not 100% sure, though!

What I say below assumes you are neither following nor being followed by the person you are trying to message by means of a tweet.

When you post a tweet to, for example, @BBUK the tweet appears on your own Twitter page and BBUK would get a notification by means of a "Mention".

They can then look at your tweet but only by going onto your Twitter page? Is this right.... or not!

Still struggling with this - as you can see. Lol!

Assuming you're on the web twitter, you should see this bar at the top of the page.



Every time someone sends bbuk a message, eg: "@bbuk I want Dexter to win!", they can click on the @connect button (used to be called 'Mentions') and they will see your message appear here, along with all the other messages that people have sent them using the @bbuk tag.

[CaudleHalbard]

Thank you very much Richard - that is very helpful.

So - just to confirm please - the person you've tweeted to does NOT need to look at your Twitter page for the message? They get the tweet on their own page under @Connect?

(I hope this thread is helpful to other struggling with Twitter. Facebook was easy peasy in comparison. Lol! )

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by CaudleHalbard

Thank you very much Richard - that is very helpful.

So - just to confirm please - the person you've tweeted to does NOT need to look at your Twitter page for the message? They get the tweet on their own page under @Connect?

(I hope this thread is helpful to other struggling with Twitter. Facebook was easy peasy in comparison. Lol! )

Nope, they don't need to look at your profile to see your tweet to them. Every single @bbuk message they ever receive will be listed under the @connect tab.

EG: here's my most recently received message



I blurred out his profile pic etc but you get the picture. I don't need to look at his profile to see his tweet to me because it's right there underneath my @Connect tab instead.

[CaudleHalbard]

Richard - you are a gem! Ta very much.

[billy123]

There are loads of guides to twitter on youtube. For some reason its one of those things that sounds complicated when you try and explain it but is dead easy when you see it being done.

Youtube video