# Learning Twitter in 2022

DevFeed: [Learning Twitter in 2022](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/learning-twitter-in-2022-28354.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/twitter/2022/06/11/learning-twitter-in-2022.html>)

Author: Fuzzygroup

Published: 2022-06-11T01:57:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Scott Johnson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scott-johnson.md>)

Topics: [X (Twitter)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/twitter.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [hash](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hash.md>), [identifier](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/identifier.md>), [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>)

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## AI overview

A work-in-progress guide to learning Twitter in 2022. It shares practical observations about gaining visibility, using hashtags, engaging with relevant people, tracking one metric, experimenting, and mixing original posts with other users' content.

## Source excerpt

Note: This is a work in progress. Rather than finish it in one go, I'm updating it live as a draft document as I learn new things about Twitter. Last update: 2022-06-15 I am, at heart, a long form blogger. Still - the cool kids, as they say - these days are all on twitter (and, yes, I know by saying it that way, I'm dating myself even further; so be it; it amuses me). I find myself, here in 2022, wanting to get a better handle on Twitter. This will be a regularly updated blog post summarizing what I've learned. Rule 0: You Are Screaming Into the Void The first thing to understand is that Twitter as a whole is enormous and no one is going to notice, or even care, that you are there. There is very much an aspect of screaming into the void. Rule 1: You Are Going to Have to Work to Get Noticed When a social media is new then can be easy to get established. When a social media already exists though, it is a lot of work to establish yourself. You need to throw away any expectations that you are going to be successful on Twitter quickly and get ready for a long grind of creating content. Rule 2: Hash Tags A hash tag is an identifier that describes your content. What I have noticed is that without hash tags, my content may as well not exist. Add hash tags to your tweet just by adding a hash mark or # to the end of your tweets. Rule 3: @ sign Someone if It is Relevant Rule 4: Direct Messaging People on Twitter is Quite Real Rule 5: Check Your Mentions Rule 6: Keep At It Rule 7: Decide On Your One Metric Twitter has a number of metrics: Followers Retweets Likes Mentions Trying to pay attention to all of these at once is, for someone who isn't metric oriented and isn't a marketer, a kind of sucky experience. My choice was that I was going to use my Followers count as the metric. When I started this experiment, I had 207 followers. Now I have 209 followers. Progress??? Rule 8: Experiment and Learn from It Rule 9: Don't Just Tweet Your Own Stuff Imagine Twitter as if it was a pa