How to Create a Tweetstorm?
Twitter, recently, recognized Tweetstorm as an official feature of the app. Given, the recent update of including 280 characters instead of the precious 140, Twitter showed its users that it wants them to have enough space to express themselves, properly.
While the 280 character update was a welcome relief to many users, the official tweetstorm update is going to be extremely helpful users and especially, to content marketers.
Storytelling is gaining major traction when it comes to content marketing. Twitter with its 280 characters wasn't allowing as much to cover a complete story.
This is where tweetstorm comes in. You can link more tweets to your original one, and tweet the entire thread, together. This is much like the reply thread that we have on each tweet. To read the entire thread, you need to click the "show this thread" link.
Tweetstorms appear like normal tweets in your timeline. It could show the original tweet along with two more tweets. You can then click on the thread to continue reading.
Features like hashtags, retweets, images, and mentions in tweetstorms will work normally like other tweets.
How to create a Tweetstorm?
You can start creating a Tweetstorm like a normal tweet. Once your first tweet is complete (it does not need to be a complete 280 character tweet), you can hit the "+" sign on the lower right corner of the Tweet screen (just above the letter "P" on the QWERTY board).
You can then continue to add a couple of more tweets. When you are done, you can go ahead and hit the "Tweet all" button on the upper right corner of the screen. You are then shown a notification of your thread being tweeted, much like the one you get when a FB video/album is being uploaded. And that's it. Your complete story in one Tweet thread.
No more do you need to complete your stories in the comment section, as now Twitter gives you all the space you require for the same.
Tweetstorms started with Venture capitalist & Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, who has been famously dubbed "The Father of the Tweetstorm" when he started linking his tweets in a thread format. His way of tweeting about his thoughts in a long threaded tweet, caught eyeballs and interest.
Are you ready to start tweetstorming? Tweetstorm is available in Twitter, now. Check your app to find out more.
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Proma Nautiyal
6 years ago #10
I agree, Phil Friedman. I recently became active on Twitter, since I had no way out given my job of a digital marketer. But fitting everything into the (earlier) 140 word count was pretty painful for me. Tweetstorms and 280 characters update is a welcome relief.
Proma Nautiyal
6 years ago #9
Thank you for the read and share, Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador!
Proma Nautiyal
6 years ago #8
CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit I guess Tweetstorms just help you write longer tweets to make the subject matter more lucid than just a mysterious 280 character tweet. It adds more substance to what you might want to talk about. A story for example, a game, a thought, anything that can be broken down in a sequence and made more sense of. It does not necessarily mean that each tweet in the tweetstorm needs to be 280 characters long. It could be shorter, too. It is more helpful in communicating than selling, according to me. If that communication/marketing effort ends in a potential client, that's great, too!
Proma Nautiyal
6 years ago #7
Thanks for the read, Louise Smith and that's a great analogy.
Phil Friedman
6 years ago #6
Unlike writers like CityVP Manjit and @Harvey Lloyd, who generally write in short tweet-like shots, I will have to wait until Twitter increases its character limit to about 1,000 since I can't even introduce a topic in less than 200 words. :-)
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #5
My gut reaction to tweetstorms was a thread or a conversation, but it will be interesting to see examples of tweetstorms being used as effective form of social selling. It is has been so long since I have been to Twitter that this kind of media convention is new to me, to date the only threaded tweets I have seen were based on a threaded conversation. I am sure it can be used for selling but like personal brand, it requires more thought, patience and skill to be effective.
Louise Smith
6 years ago #4
Louise Smith
6 years ago #3
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #2
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #1